About the Authors

Ashkan Afshin

aafshin@uw.edu

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America

José L. Peñalvo

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Liana Del Gobbo

Affiliations Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Jose Silva

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America

Melody Michaelson

Affiliation School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston MA, United States of America

Martin O'Flaherty

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Simon Capewell

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Donna Spiegelman

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Goodarz Danaei

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Dariush Mozaffarian

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

DM reports ad hoc travel reimbursement or honoraria from Bunge, Pollock Institute, Quaker Oats, and Life Sciences Research Organization; ad hoc consulting fees from McKinsey Health Systems Institute, Foodminds, Nutrition Impact, Amarin, Omthera, and Winston and Strawn LLP; membership, Unilever North America Scientific Advisory Board; royalties from UpToDate; and research grants from GlaxoSmithKline, Sigma Tau, Pronova, the Gates Foundation, the Sackler Institute of Nutrition, and the National Institutes of Health. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AA DM. Data curation: AA JP LDG JS MM. Formal analysis: AA JP DM. Funding acquisition: DM. Methodology: AA DS GD DM. Writing – original draft: AA DM. Writing – review & editing: AA JP LDG JS MM MO SC DS GD DM.