About the Authors

Fumiaki Imamura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fumiaki.imamura@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Amanda M. Fretts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Matti Marklund

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, The George Institute for Global Health, the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andres V. Ardisson Korat

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, 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

Wei-Sin Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, the Republic of China

Maria Lankinen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Waqas Qureshi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Catherine Helmer

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INSERM, UMR 1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Tzu-An Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jyrki K. Virtanen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Kerry Wong

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Julie K. Bassett

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Rachel Murphy

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Cancer Prevention, School of Population & Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Nathan Tintle

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dordt University, Sioux Center, Iowa, United States of America

Chaoyu Ian Yu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ingeborg A. Brouwer

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Kuo-Liong Chien

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, the Republic of China

Yun-yu Chen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, the Republic of China, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, the Republic of China

Alexis C. Wood

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Liana C. del Gobbo

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Luc Djousse

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Divisions of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Johanna M. Geleijnse

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Graham G. Giles

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Janette de Goede

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Vilmundur Gudnason

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association Research Institute, Kopavogur, Iceland

William S. Harris

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America, OmegaQuant Analytics, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Allison Hodge

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Frank Hu

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, 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

InterAct Consortium

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Albert Koulman

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres Core Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres Core Metabolomics and Lipidomics Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Markku Laakso

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Department of Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

Lars Lind

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Hung-Ju Lin

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, the Republic of China

Barbara McKnight

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kalina Rajaobelina

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INSERM, UMR 1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Ulf Riserus

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Jennifer G. Robinson

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preventive Intervention Center, Departments of Epidemiology, the University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Cecilia Samieri

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INSERM, UMR 1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Mackenzie Senn

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David S. Siscovick

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Sabita S. Soedamah-Muthu

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Center of Research on Psychological and Somatic disorders, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Nona Sotoodehnia

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Qi Sun

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, 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

Michael Y. Tsai

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Matti Uusitupa

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Lynne E. Wagenknecht

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Nick J. Wareham

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jason H. Y. Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Renata Micha

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Rozenn N. Lemaitre

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dariush Mozaffarian

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Nita G. Forouhi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JYW and RM report research support from Unilever for other projects on fatty acid biomarkers. LCDG reported receiving ad hoc consulting fees from the Life Sciences Research Organization. CH reported receiving fees for a conference from Novartis. IAB reported involvement in a research project partly funded by Unilever. JGR received research grants from Amarin and Astra-Zeneca. DM reported receiving ad hoc honoraria from Bunge, Pollock Institute, and Quaker Oats; ad hoc consulting for Foodminds, Life Sciences Research Organization, Nutrition Impact, Amarin, AstraZeneca, Winston, and Strawn LLP; membership in Unilever North America Scientific Advisory Board; and chapter royalties from UpToDate. SSSM reported receiving an international award and unrestricted grants for meta-analysis work on dairy foods and cardiometabolic diseases from Global and Dutch Dairy Associations. Other authors do not have any conflict of interest to declare.