About the Authors

Diewertje Sluik

Diewertje.Sluik@wur.nl

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

Nicole Jankovic

Affiliations Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Centre of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Mark G. O’Doherty

Affiliation UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Anouk Geelen

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

Ben Schöttker

Affiliations Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Institute of Health Care and Social Sciences, FOM University, Essen, Germany

Olov Rolandsson

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong

Affiliations Global Public Health, Leiden University College, the Hague, the Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Jean Ferrieres

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Toulouse University School of Medicine, Toulouse, France

Christina Bamia

Affiliations Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece, WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Heidi P. Fransen

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Jolanda M. A. Boer

Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Sture Eriksson

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Begoña Martínez

Affiliations Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.Granada, Hospitales Universitaios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

José María Huerta

Affiliations CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain

Daan Kromhout

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

Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot

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

Oscar H. Franco

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliations Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece, WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Paolo Boffetta

Affiliations Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, United States of America

Frank Kee

Affiliation UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Edith J. M. Feskens

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DS FK EJMF. Formal analysis: DS NJ. Funding acquisition: DK LCPGMG OHF AT PB FK EJMF. Resources: DK LCPGMG OHF AT PB. Supervision: EJMF. Writing - original draft: DS. Writing - review & editing: NJ MGO AG BS OR JCKJ JF CB HPF JMAB SE BM JMH DK LCPGMG OHF AT PB FK EJMF.