About the Authors
- Rafael Plessow
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Affiliation Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Narendra Kumar Arora
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Affiliation International Clinical Epidemiology Network, INCLEN, New Delhi, India
- Beatrice Brunner
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Affiliation Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Christina Tzogiou
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Affiliation Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Klaus Eichler
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Affiliation Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Urs Brügger
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Affiliation Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Simon Wieser
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* E-mail: simon.wieser@zhaw.ch
Affiliation Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. The study was supported by the Nestlé Research Center. KE and SW have received speaker honorarium and conference travel grants from Nestlé Nutrition Institute. Rafael Plessow, Beatrice Brunner, Christina Tzogiou, Klaus Eichler, Urs Brügger and Simon Wieser are employed by Winterthur Institute of Health Economics. The Winterthur Institute of Health Economics is an institute at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, a publicly funded Swiss University. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RP NKA UB SW. Performed the experiments: RP BB CT SW. Analyzed the data: RP BB CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RP BB CT KE. Wrote the paper: RP NKA SW.