Acknowledgements
P., Diabetes
HEART, EDWARDS, BRAIN, DIABETES
We thank the research nurses and administration staff at the Barts, Cambridge and Guy’s and St Thomas’ clinical trials units for help with the day-to-day running of the study, in particular A. Palma, L. Hu, L. Serban, P. Ebano, S. Dube, A. Lofum, C. Varsani and D. Grant. We thank the staff at the Cambridge University Wolfson Brain Imaging Center. We are grateful to A. Sundin, S. Akker and I. Mendichovszky for thoughtful discussions and to C. Edwards for chairing the study steering committee meetings. We thank R. Davies for performing the artificial intelligence analysis for the CMR sub-study and L. Campos, S. Jordan and the CUH and SBH histopathology departments for performing IHC on the study samples. The study was funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation project (14/145/09 to W.M.D., M.G. and M.J.B.) and Barts and the London Charity project (MGU0360 to W.M.D. and M.J.B.). C.P.C. was funded by the NIHR as part of the portfolio of translational research of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. This research utilized Queen Mary’s Apocrita HPC facility, supported by QMUL Research-IT (10.5281/zenodo.438045). E.G. was supported by the Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship (MR/S006869/1). G.A was supported by the British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship (FS/19/50/34566). M.G., A. Marker and R.S. were supported by the NIHR Cambridge BRC (IS-BRC-1215-20014). R.F. was supported by the National Medical Research Council and BRC of Singapore. Research in SBH and CUH was further supported by the NIHR Barts Cardiovascular BRC (IS-BRC-1215-20022) and Cambridge BRC and BRC-funded Tissue Bank. W.A. receives support from the NIHR Birmingham BRC (grant reference BRC-1215-20009) and European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement 633983 (ENSAT-HT). A.P. is supported by Diabetes UK (Sir George Alberti Research Training Fellowship 18/0005782). Last but not least, we thank all of the study participants and referring centers without whom this study would not have come to fruition.