About the Authors
- Fumiaki Imamura
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* E-mail: fumiaki.imamura@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Renata Micha
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Affiliation Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jason H. Y. Wu
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Affiliation George Institute for Global Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney Medical School, Camperdown, Australia
- Marcia C. de Oliveira Otto
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Fadar O. Otite
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Ajibola I. Abioye
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Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Dariush Mozaffarian
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Affiliation Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DM reports ad hoc honoraria or consulting from Boston Heart Diagnostics, Haas Avocado Board, Astra Zeneca, GOED, DSM, and Life Sciences Research Organization; chapter royalties from UpToDate; and scientific advisory board, Elysium Health. Harvard University has been assigned patent US8889739 B2, listing DM as one of three co-inventors, for use of trans-palmitoleic acid in identifying and treating metabolic disease. RM and JHYW received research support from Unilever R&D (project reference number MA-2015-01161) for work on fatty acid biomarkers and incident cardiometabolic diseases.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FI RM JHYW DM. Analyzed the data: FI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FI RM JHYW MCdOO FOO AIA. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: FI. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: FI DM. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: FI RM JHYW MCdOO FOO AIA DM. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.