Arterial wall inflammation assessed by 18F-FDG-PET/CT is higher in individuals with Type 1 diabetes and associated with circulating inflammatory proteins.

"Conflict of interest: None declared."

"Funding This work was funded by the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD/AZ Macrovascular Programme 2015) and the Dutch Diabetes Foundation (2015.82.1824). N.P.R. received an IN-CONTROL CVON grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation (CVON2018-27) and a grant from the ERA-CVD Joint Transnational Call 2018, which is supported by the Dutch Heart Foundation (JTC2018, project MEMORY, 2018T093). C.J.T. is supported by the European research project Hypo-RESOLVE (Hypoglycaemia—Redefining SOLutions for better liVEs), which has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement no. 777460."

"Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the Radboud University Medical Center (NL62200.091.17; 2017-3555) and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03441919). Participant inclusion and experiments were conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants gave written informed consent before participation."