About the Authors
- Anna Reeske
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Affiliation Leibniz - Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen, Germany
- Jacob Spallek
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Affiliations Leibniz - Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen, Germany, Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
- Karin Bammann
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Affiliations Leibniz - Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen, Germany, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Gabriele Eiben
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Stefaan De Henauw
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
- Yiannis Kourides
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Affiliation Research and Education Institute of Child Health, Strovolos, Cyprus
- Peter Nagy
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
- Wolfgang Ahrens
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* E-mail: ahrens@bips.uni-bremen.de
Affiliations Leibniz - Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen, Germany, Institute for Statistics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Coordination of German study sample collection: KB WA. Discussion of analysis and results: AR JS KB GE SDH YK PN WA. Conceived and designed the experiments: AR JS WA. Analyzed the data: AR WA. Wrote the paper: AR WA.