About the Authors

Anders Grøntved

agroentved@health.sdu.dk (AG); frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu (FBH)

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Research Unit for Exercise Epidemiology and Centre of Research in Childhood Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

An Pan

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Rania A. Mekary

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Meir Stampfer

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Walter C. Willett

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

JoAnn E. Manson

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frank B. Hu

agroentved@health.sdu.dk (AG); frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu (FBH)

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG AP RAM MS WCW JEM FBH. Performed the experiments: AG AP RAM MS WCW JEM FBH. Analyzed the data: AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG AP RAM MS WCW JEM FBH. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: AG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AG AP RAM MS WCW JEM FBH. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: AG AP RAM MS WCW JEM FBH. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: AG AP RAM MS WCW JEM FBH.