About the Authors

Hannah S. Jilani

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen and Health Sciences Bremen, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Hermann Pohlabeln

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany

Kirsten Buchecker

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Food Science, TTZ, Bremerhaven, Germany

Wencke Gwozdz

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Stefaan De Henauw

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Gabriele Eiben

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Biomedicine and Public Health, School of Health and Education, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

Dénes Molnar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pécs, Medical School, Pécs, Hungary

Luis A. Moreno

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Valeria Pala

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Lucia Reisch

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Paola Russo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology and Population Genetics, Institute of Food Sciences, National Research Council, Avellino, Italy

Toomas Veidebaum

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chronic Diseases, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia

Wolfgang Ahrens

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfgang Ahrens, Antje Hebestreit

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany, Institute of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Antje Hebestreit

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfgang Ahrens, Antje Hebestreit

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hebestr@leibniz-bips.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany

on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium

Full list of authorship can be found in S1 File.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.