About the Authors

Huaidong Du

huaidong.du@ctsu.ox.ac.uk (HD); lmlee@vip.163.com (LL)

Affiliations Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Liming Li

huaidong.du@ctsu.ox.ac.uk (HD); lmlee@vip.163.com (LL)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Derrick Bennett

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Yu Guo

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Iain Turnbull

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ling Yang

Affiliations Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Fiona Bragg

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Zheng Bian

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yiping Chen

Affiliations Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Junshi Chen

Affiliation China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China

Iona Y. Millwood

Affiliations Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sam Sansome

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Liangcai Ma

Affiliation Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control Department, Suzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Suzhou, China

Ying Huang

Affiliation Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control Department, Guangxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, China

Ningmei Zhang

Affiliation Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control Department, Sichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China

Xiangyang Zheng

Affiliation Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control Department, Meilan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Haikou, China

Qiang Sun

Affiliation Pengzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Pengzhou, China

Timothy J. Key

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rory Collins

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Richard Peto

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Zhengming Chen

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

China Kadoorie Biobank study

Membership of the China Kadoorie Biobank study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

RC is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. The authors declare that no other competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HD DB LL ZC. Data curation: YG ZB YC LY HD IT SS LM YH NZ XZ QS. Formal analysis: HD DB FB. Funding acquisition: ZC LL RC RP JC. Methodology: HD LL DB IT LY FB IM YC JC TK RC RP ZC. Project administration: YG ZB LM YH NZ XZ QS. Supervision: ZC LL RC RP JC. Writing – original draft: HD. Writing – review & editing: LL DB YG IT LY FB ZB YC JC IM SS LM YH NZ XZ QS TK RC RP ZC.