Correction to: Int J Obes (2021) 45:2471–2481 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-021-00921-3, published online 30 July 2021

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. In the acknowledgements the authors omitted to mention that the first author, Leonardo Rodriguez-López received a CONACYT scholarship for the Basic Biomedical Research program (Investigacion Biomedica Basica), UNAM. The authors apologize for the mistake. The original article has been corrected.