Correction to: International Journal of Obesity (2008) 32, 1537–1544; doi:10.1038/ijo.2008.134; published online 19 August 2008

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors have noticed the omission of the list of DPP research group members in their paper. The list has now been added to the online version of the article as Supplementary Information.

They also noticed an error that was missed earlier: references 3 and 9 are the same.

The authors apologize for the errors.