About the Authors

Louise Foley

lf354@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit & UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Richard Prins

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit & UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Fiona Crawford

Affiliation NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Glasgow, United Kingdom

David Humphreys

Affiliation Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Richard Mitchell

Affiliation Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Shannon Sahlqvist

Affiliation Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research (C-PAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Hilary Thomson

Affiliation MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

David Ogilvie

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit & UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

on behalf of the M74 study team

Membership of the M74 study team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

LF reports grants from National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research programme, project number 11/3005/07, grants from British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, the National Institute for Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust, under the auspices of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC), during the conduct of the study; RP reports grants from Medical Research Council, grants from National Institute for Health Research, during the conduct of the study; FC has nothing to disclose; DH has nothing to disclose; RM has nothing to disclose; SS has nothing to disclose; HT has nothing to disclose; DO reports grants from Medical Research Council, grants from NIHR Public Health Research Programme, grants from UKCRC, during the conduct of the study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, whilst considering the limitations on data availability due to consent described above.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FC DH RM SS HT DO. Data curation: LF RP DO. Formal analysis: LF RP DO. Funding acquisition: DO. Investigation: LF DO HT. Methodology: LF RP FC DH RM SS HT DO. Project administration: LF DO HT. Resources: DO HT. Supervision: DO. Writing – original draft: LF RP DO. Writing – review & editing: LF RP FC DH RM SS HT DO.