About the Authors

Maike Wolters

wolters@leibniz-bips.de

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

Valeria Pala

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Paola Russo

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

Patrizia Risé

Affiliation DiSFeB, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Luis A. Moreno

Affiliation GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (IIS Aragón), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Stefaan De Henauw

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

Kirsten Mehlig

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Toomas Veidebaum

Affiliation National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia

Denés Molnár

Affiliation National Institute of Health Promotion, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Michael Tornaritis

Affiliation Research and Education Institute of Child Health, Nicosia, Cyprus

Claudio Galli

Affiliation DiSFeB, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Wolfgang Ahrens

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

Claudia Börnhorst

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

on behalf of the IDEFICS and I.Family consortia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MW CB. Formal analysis: CB P. Risé CG. Funding acquisition: WA. Investigation: P. Russo LAM SDH KM TV DM MT WA. Methodology: CB. Project administration: WA. Resources: P. Russo LAM SDH KM TV DM MT WA. Supervision: WA. Visualization: MW CB. Writing – original draft: MW CB. Writing – review & editing: VP P. Russo P. Risé LAM SDH KM TV DM MT CG WA.