About the Authors

Lauren Paynter

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America

Elizabeth Koehler

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America

Annie Green Howard

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America

Amy H. Herring

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America

Penny Gordon-Larsen

pglarsen@unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP PGL AHH. Analyzed the data: LP EK AGH AHH PGL. Wrote the paper: LP EK AGH AHH PGL.