Supplementary Table 1: Circulatory miRNA identified in multiple studies to be important in the regulation of key aspects of cardio-metabolic diseasesSupplementary Table 2: Primer sequences of analysed genesSupplementary table 3: Over-representation analysis of genes targeted by differentially expressed miRNAs (miR-15a-5p, and -17-5p) identifies significant enrichment in Gene Ontology (GO)Supplementary table 4: Over-representation analysis of shared genes between the differentially expressed miRNAs highlights target genes involved in metabolic related pathways.