About the Authors

Prabhat Jha

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: prabhat.jha@utoronto.ca

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Public Health Sciences, St Michael's Hospital, and McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Vendhan Gajalakshmi

Affiliation Epidemiological Research Centre, Chennai, India

Prakash C Gupta

Affiliation Healis-Seskarhia Institute of Public Health, Navi Mumbai, India

Rajesh Kumar

Affiliation School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Prem Mony

Affiliation Institute of Population Health and Clinical Research, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India

Neeraj Dhingra

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Public Health Sciences, St Michael's Hospital, and McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Richard Peto

Affiliation Clinical Trial and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

RGI-CGHR Prospective Study Collaborators

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

All authors contributed to the design of the study, to analyses of the data, and to the writing of the paper.