About the Authors

Olaf M. Dekkers

o.m.dekkers@lumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Department of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Jan P. Vandenbroucke

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Myriam Cevallos

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Andrew G. Renehan

Affiliation Manchester Cancer Research Centre, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Douglas G. Altman

† Deceased.

Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Matthias Egger

Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Research (CIDER), School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AGR has received lecture honoraria from Merck Serona and Janssen-Cilag, and independent research funding and lecture honoraria from Novo Nordisk and Sanofi Pasteur MSD. ME receives a stipend as a Specialty Consulting Editor for PLOS Medicine and serves on the journal's Editorial Board.