About the Authors

Julia L. Finkelstein

jfinkels@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Mark D. Schleinitz

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Hélène Carabin

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Stephen T. McGarvey

Affiliations Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, International Health Institute, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM JF MS. Analyzed the data: SM JF MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM HC JF MS. Wrote the paper: SM HC JF MS.