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Research Article

Fatty acid biomarkers of dairy fat consumption and incidence of type 2 diabetes: A pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies

  • Fumiaki Imamura ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: fumiaki.imamura@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

    Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6841-8396

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  • Amanda Fretts,

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

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

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  • Matti Marklund,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3320-796X

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  • Andres V. Ardisson Korat,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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  • Wei-Sin Yang,

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

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

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  • Maria Lankinen,

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

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

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  • Waqas Qureshi,

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

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

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  • Catherine Helmer,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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  • Tzu-An Chen,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, 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

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  • Kerry Wong,

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

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-2257

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  • Julie K. Bassett,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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  • Rachel Murphy,

    Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, 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

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  • Nathan Tintle,

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

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

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  • Chaoyu Ian Yu,

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

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

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  • Ingeborg A. Brouwer,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth & Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8762-382X

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  • Kuo-Liong Chien,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4979-8351

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  • Alexis C. Frazier-Wood,

    Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, 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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7616-2119

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  • Liana C. del Gobbo,

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

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

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  • Luc Djoussé,

    Roles Conceptualization, Resources, 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

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  • Johanna M. Geleijnse,

    Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7638-0589

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  • Graham G. Giles,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4946-9099

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  • Janette de Goede,

    Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6174-0681

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  • Vilmundur Gudnason,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association Research Institute, Holtasmári 1, Kópavogur, Iceland, Iceland

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5696-0084

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  • William S. Harris,

    Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, 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 LLC, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3042-9353

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  • Allison Hodge,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5464-2197

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  • Frank Hu,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

    ⨯
  • InterAct Consortium ,

    ¶Membership of the InterAct Consortium and the Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium (FORCE) is linked to in the Acknowledgements.

    Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  • Albert Koulman,

    Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, 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, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-051X

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  • Markku Laakso,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

    ⨯
  • Lars Lind,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ⨯
  • Hung-Ju Lin,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan

    ⨯
  • Barbara McKnight,

    Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, 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, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ⨯
  • Ulf Risérus,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-4586

    ⨯
  • Jennifer G. Robinson,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

    ⨯
  • Cécilia Samieri,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9809-7506

    ⨯
  • David S. Siscovick,

    Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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  • Sabita S. Soedamah-Muthu,

    Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic Diseases, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8830-3502

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  • Nona Sotoodehnia,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ⨯
  • Qi Sun,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8480-1563

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  • Michael Y. Tsai,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ⨯
  • Matti Uusitupa,

    Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

    ⨯
  • Lynne E. Wagenknecht,

    Roles Data curation, 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 Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1422-2993

    ⨯
  • Jason HY Wu,

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

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

    ⨯
  • Renata Micha,

    Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3983-1632

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  • Nita G. Forouhi,

    Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5041-248X

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  • Rozenn N. Lemaitre,

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

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

    ⨯
  • Dariush Mozaffarian,

    Roles Conceptualization, 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

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-9492

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  • Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium (FORCE)

    ¶Membership of the InterAct Consortium and the Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium (FORCE) is linked to in the Acknowledgements.

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Fatty acid biomarkers of dairy fat consumption and incidence of type 2 diabetes: A pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies

  • Fumiaki Imamura, 
  • Amanda Fretts, 
  • Matti Marklund, 
  • Andres V. Ardisson Korat, 
  • Wei-Sin Yang, 
  • Maria Lankinen, 
  • Waqas Qureshi, 
  • Catherine Helmer, 
  • Tzu-An Chen, 
  • Kerry Wong
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