About the Authors

Dora Romaguera

d.romaguera-bosch@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Lars Ängquist

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Huaidong Du

Affiliations National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute of Maastricht (NUTRIM), Maastricht, the Netherlands

Marianne Uhre Jakobsen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Nita G. Forouhi

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke′s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jytte Halkjær

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Edith J. M. Feskens

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

Daphne L. van der A

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

Giovanna Masala

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, ISPO (Cancer Research and Prevention Institute), Florence, Italy

Annika Steffen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, ISPO (Cancer Research and Prevention Institute), Florence, Italy

Nicholas J. Wareham

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke′s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kim Overvad

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Cardiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Anne Tjønneland

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Thorkild I. Sørensen

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR TIS LÄ. Performed the experiments: DR. Analyzed the data: DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LÄ HD MUJ NGF JH EJMF DLvdA GM AS DP NJW KO AT HB ER TIS. Wrote the paper: DR. Overall coordinator of the EPIC study: ER. Had primary responsibility for the final content of the paper: TIS. All co-authors approved the final version of the manuscript.