About the Authors

Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Piotr Bandosz

j.pearson-stuttard@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Piotr Bandosz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Piotr Bandosz

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Preventive Medicine and Education, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Colin D. Rehm

Affiliation Office of Community and Population Health, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jose Penalvo

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laurie Whitsel

Affiliation American Heart Association, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Tom Gaziano

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zach Conrad

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Parke Wilde

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Renata Micha

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ffion Lloyd-Williams

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Simon Capewell

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Dariush Mozaffarian

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin O’Flaherty

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: LW serves as the Director of Policy Research for the American Heart Association. CDR has consulted for the Almond Board of California and the Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition. DM has received honoraria for one-time scientific presentations/reviews on diet from Haas Avocado Board, and Pollock Communications; has done ad-hoc consulting for Life Sciences Research Organization, Astra Zeneca, Boston Heart Diagnostics, GOED, and DSM; was on the scientific advisory board for Unilever North America until 2014; has received royalties from UpToDate for online chapters on fish oil and dietary fat; is listed on Patent US8889739 B2 to Harvard University as a co-inventor, for use of trans-palmitoleic acid in identifying and treating metabolic disease.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SC MOF DM. Data curation: PB JPS CR JP. Formal analysis: JPS PB MOF. Funding acquisition: DM SC MOF RM. Investigation: JPS PB MOF FLW. Methodology: MOF PB JPS CR PW TG DM RM. Project administration: DM MOF SC. Resources: DM MOF. Software: PB CR ZC. Supervision: MOF DM SC. Validation: JPS PB MOF LW PW SC. Visualization: JPS PB. Writing – original draft: JPS MOF PB LW. Writing – review & editing: JPS PB CR JP RM TG ZC PW LW FLW SC MOF DM.