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\*Address all correspondence to: stefan.lorkowski@uni-jena.de

1 Department of Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

2 Competence Cluster for Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health (nutriCARD), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany

3 Department of Nutritional, Food and Consumer Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Germany

4 Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

† These authors contributed equally
