About the Authors

Aiden Doherty

aiden.doherty@ndph.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, BHF Centre of Research Excellence, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dan Jackson

Affiliation Open Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Nils Hammerla

Affiliation Open Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Thomas Plötz

Affiliation Open Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Patrick Olivier

Affiliation Open Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Malcolm H. Granat

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Tom White

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Vincent T. van Hees

Affiliation MoveLab, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Michael I. Trenell

Affiliation MoveLab, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Christoper G. Owen

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Stephen J. Preece

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Rob Gillions

Affiliation UK Biobank, Stockport, United Kingdom

Simon Sheard

Affiliation UK Biobank, Stockport, United Kingdom

Tim Peakman

Affiliation UK Biobank, Stockport, United Kingdom

Soren Brage

‡ These authors are joint last authors

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Wareham

‡ These authors are joint last authors

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

DJ is a director of Axivity Ltd who manufactured the accelerometer used in our study. PO has previously been a director of Axivity Ltd. NH has previously consulted for Axivity Ltd. The partners of DJ and PO own shares in Axivity. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AD PO T. Peakman SB NJW. Data curation: AD DJ NH TW. Formal analysis: AD SB NJW. Funding acquisition: AD T. Plötz PO T. Peakman SB NJW. Investigation: AD DJ T. Plötz PO MG TW VTvH MIT CGO SJP RG SS T. Peakman SB NJW. Methodology: AD DJ NH T. Plötz PO MG TW VTvH MIT CGO SJP SB NJW. Project administration: RG SS T. Peakman. Resources: AD PO RG SS T. Peakman. Software: AD DJ NH TW. Supervision: NJW. Validation: AD DJ NH TW VTvH SB. Visualization: AD. Writing – original draft: AD SB NJW. Writing – review & editing: AD DJ T. Plötz PO MG TW VTvH MIT CGO SJP RG SS T. Peakman SB NJW.