About the Authors

Romina di Giuseppe

romina.digiuseppe@dife.de

Affiliations Research Group Cardiovascular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tilman Kühn

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Frank Hirche

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Human Nutrition Group, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Brian Buijsse

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany

Jutta Dierkes

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Andreas Fritsche

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany

Rudolf Kaaks

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany

Gabriele I. Stangl

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Human Nutrition Group, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Cornelia Weikert

Affiliations Research Group Cardiovascular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RdG HB RK CW. Performed the experiments: RdG TK. Analyzed the data: RdG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FH AF RK HB GIS CW. Wrote the paper: RdG. Interpretation and critical revision of the manuscript: RdG TK FH BB JD AF RK HB GIS CW.