About the Authors

Mathew Vithayathil

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Paul Carter

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Siddhartha Kar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Amy M. Mason

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen Burgess

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sb452@medschl.cam.ac.uk

‡ SB and SCL are joint last authors of this work.

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Susanna C. Larsson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ SB and SCL are joint last authors of this work.

Affiliations Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist apart from the following: Stephen Burgess is a paid statistical reviewer for PLOS Medicine.