Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice - Volume 120 - Supplement 1 - October 2016

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Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Aims and Scope
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice is an international journal for healthcare providers and clinically oriented researchers that
publishes high-quality original research articles and expert reviews in diabetes and related areas. The role of the journal is to provide a
venue for dissemination of knowledge and discussion of topics related to diabetes clinical research and patient care. Topics of focus
include translational science, genetics, immunology, nutrition, psychosocial research, epidemiology, prevention, socio-economic
research, complications, new treatments, technologies and therapy. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice is the official journal of the
International Diabetes Federation.
Please submit manuscripts online at
Editor-in-Chief: Antonio Ceriello,
Institut d’Investigacions Biome`diques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases at IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan, Italy
Associate Editors: Felix Assah, MD, PhD, University of Yaounde´, Yaounde´, Cameroon
Leonor Guariguata, MPH, Brussels, Belgium
Won-Young Lee, MD, PhD, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Dianna Magliano, BAppSci(Hon) MPH PhD, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Russell S. Scott, MB, ChB, BMed Sci, FRACP, PhD, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand
Giorgio Sesti, MD, The Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Eberhard Standl, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Munich, Germany
Xianghai Zhou, MD, PhD, Peking University, P.R. China
Reviews Editor: Pierre J Lefe`bvre, MD, PhD, FRCP, MAE, University of Lie`ge, Belgium
Editorial Office: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, Health Sciences, Elsevier Ltd., The Boulevard,
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Language Editor: Jenny Collins, DPhil
Executive Publisher: Andrew Miller, PhD; email:
Honorary Editors-in-Chief: C.S. Cockram, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
S. Colagiuri, Sydney, Australia
N. Hotta, Nagoya, Japan
J.R. Turtle, Sydney, Australia
EDITORIAL BOARD
P. Aschner, Bogota, Colombia
J.S. Bajaj, Bombay, India
M.A. Banerji, New York, USA
K. Borch-Johnsen, Gentofte, Denmark
I. Chen, Los Angeles, USA
N.H. Cho, Suwon, Korea
T. Cundy, Auckland, New Zealand
M.B. Davidson, Los Angeles, USA
A. Farmer, Oxford, UK
J.J. Gagliardino, La Plata, Argentina
O.P. Ganda, Boston, USA
E. Goyder, Sheffield, UK
J. Gross, Porto Alegre, Brazil
L.C. Harrison, Melbourne, Australia
P. Home, Newcastle, UK
Y.-J. Hung, Taipei, Taiwan
L. Ji, Beijing, China
Y. Kanazawa, Tokyo, Japan
M. Kobayashi, Toyama City, Japan
H.M.J. Krans, Leiden, The Netherlands
K.S.L. Lam, Hong Kong, China
R. Landgraf, Munich, Germany
H.K. Lee, Seoul, Korea
S.M. Marshall, Newcastle, UK
Y. Matsuzawa, Osaka, Japan
J.-C. Mbanya, Yaounde, Cameroon
C. Meyer, Phoenix, USA
A. Misra, New Delhi, India
M. Moka´n, Martin, Slovakia
A. Mtrakou, Athens, Greece
K. Nanjo, Wakayama, Japan
A. Ramachandran, Chennai, India
Y. Seino, Kyoto, Japan
P. Shepherd, Auckland, New Zealand
A. Sima, Detroit, USA
F.J. Snoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J. Tuomilehto, Helsinki, Finland
S. Viali, Apia, Samoa
T. Welborn, Perth, Australia
D. Whiting, Brussels, Belgium
Z. Zhou, Changsha, China
B. Zinman, Toronto, Canada