About the Authors

Gang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Klodian Dhana

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeremy D. Furtado

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer Rood

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Geng Zong

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Liming Liang

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lu Qi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

George A. Bray

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Lilian DeJonge

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Brent Coull

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Philippe Grandjean

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Qi Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

qisun@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PG serves as a paid expert for the State of Minnesota in a forthcoming trial regarding environmental pollution with perfluorinated compounds.