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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH rodrigp@ccf.org.
• ² Director of Diabetes Initiatives, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
• ³ Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
• ⁴ Chair, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, and Chair, Medical Subspecialty Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.