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Affiliations

• ¹ First Laboratory of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ² Severance Hospital Diabetes Center, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• ³ UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital, UCL, London, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Health, Medicine, and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
• ⁵ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• ⁶ Internal Medicine, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Modena, Italy.
• ⁷ Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, location AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Department of Nutrition, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
• ¹² Thyroid and Metabolic Diseases Unit (UETeM), Biomedical Research Institute (CIMUS/IDIS), Department of Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
• ¹³ Research Unit of Molecular Genetics of Complex Phenotypes, Bambino Gesu' Children Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Santiago de Compostela University (USC), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago, Spain.
• ¹⁵ Section of Endocrinology, Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].