About the Authors

Hedwig Deconinck

Contributed equally to this work with: Hedwig Deconinck, Anaïs Pesonen, André Briend

hedwig.deconinck@gmail.com

Affiliation Institut de recherche santé et société, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Anaïs Pesonen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hedwig Deconinck, Anaïs Pesonen, André Briend

Affiliation École de médecine, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Mahaman Hallarou

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation École de santé publique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Jean-Christophe Gérard

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Save the Children, Niamey, Niger

André Briend

Contributed equally to this work with: Hedwig Deconinck, Anaïs Pesonen, André Briend

Affiliations Tampere Centre for Child Health Research, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Philippe Donnen

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation École de santé publique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Jean Macq

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institut de recherche santé et société, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HD AP AB. Formal analysis: HD AP. Methodology: HD AB. Resources: HD MH JCG. Validation: HD AP MH JCG AB PD JM. Writing – original draft: HD AP. Writing – review & editing: HD AP.