About the Authors

Akiko Nanri

nanri@ri.ncgm.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Mizoue

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kayo Kurotani

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Goto

Affiliation Department of Diabetes Research, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shino Oba

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, National Institute of Public Health, Wako, Japan

Mitsuhiko Noda

Affiliation Department of Diabetes Research, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Norie Sawada

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Group, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

Shoichiro Tsugane

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Group, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

for the Japan Public Health Center-Based Prospective Study Group

Membership of the Japan Public Health Center-Based Prospective Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST. Performed the experiments: ST NS. Analyzed the data: AN. Wrote the paper: AN. Drafted the plan for the data analyses: AN TM KK AG SO MN. Interpretation of the results and revision of the manuscript: AN TM KK AG SO MN NS ST.