text: Acknowledgements
  The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of DRUID study participants, study staff, members of the Indigenous Steering Group, and partner organisations. The DRUID Study was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC Project Grant #236207), with additional support from the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation, the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, the International Diabetes Institute (AusDiab Partnership), and Bayer HealthCare. The DRUID Study is an in-kind project of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health. LMB had a NHMRC Scholarship 2003-5 and is supported by NHMRC Training Fellowship (#605837), NHMRC #320860 and the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Science in Diabetes, University of Melbourne. JC was supported by a NHMRC Career Development Award (#283310) and a NHMRC Research Fellowship (#545200). AH is supported by NHMRC Fellowship (#520316). Thank you to Dr Jaquelyne Hughes for comments on the manuscript. Funding sources played no role in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
  