Evanthia Gouveri has attended conferences sponsored by Berlin-Chemie, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim; received speaker honoraria by Boehringer-Ingelheim. Djordje S. Popovic declares associations with: Abbott, Alkaloid, Amicus, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Berlin-Chemie, Eli Lilly, Galenika, Krka, Merck, Novo Nordisk, PharmaSwiss, Sanofi-Aventis, Servier, Viatris, and Wörwag Pharma Nikolaos Papanas has been an advisory board member of AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, MSD, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Takeda and TrigoCare International; has participated in sponsored studies by AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, GSK, MSD, Novo Nordisk, Novartis and Sanofi-Aventis; has received honoraria as a speaker for AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Elpen, MSD, Mylan, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis and Vianex; and has attended conferences sponsored by TrigoCare International, Eli Lilly, Galenica, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis.

This article is based on previously conducted studies and does not contain any new studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.