About the Authors

Heli T. Viljakainen

Affiliations Musculoskeletal Research Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Yoav Ben-Shlomo

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sanjay Kinra

Affiliation Department of Non Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Shah Ebrahim

Affiliations Department of Non Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, South Asia Network for Chronic Disease. Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Hannah Kuper

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

K. V. Radhakrishna

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India

Bharati Kulkarni

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India

Jon H. Tobias

Jon.Tobias@bristol.ac.uk

Affiliation Musculoskeletal Research Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HV YB-S SK SE HK KVR BK JHT. Performed the experiments: HV YB-S SK SE HK KVR BK JHT. Analyzed the data: HV YB-S SK SE HK KVR BK JHT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HV YB-S SK SE HK KVR BK JHT. Wrote the paper: HV YB-S SK SE HK KVR BK JHT.