From the *Diabetes Research Division, Department of Internal Medicine F, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup; †Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism, Departmentof Infectious Diseases and CMRC, Rigshospitalet; ‡Departmentof Endocrinology I, Bispebjerg Hospital; and §Department of Endocrinology, Herlev Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Received for publication August 18, 2011; accepted January 27, 2012.
Reprints: Filip Krag Knop, MD, PhD, Diabetes Research Division, Department of Internal Medicine F, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark (e-mail: [email protected]).
This study was supported by grants from the Family Hede Nielsen Foundation, the National Research Foundation of Health and Disease, and the Research Foundation at Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev.
Dr Hansen and Dr Nielsen contributed equally to the present work.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.