About the Authors

Charlotte L. Ridgway

ulf.ekelund@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ken K. Ong

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tuija H. Tammelin

Affiliation Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland

Stephen Sharp

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ulf Ekelund

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin

Affiliations Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: CLR KKO UE. Wrote the paper: CLR. Interpretation of data: KKO UE. Responsible for data collection and study design, critical input on all versions and approval of final version of the manuscript: TT MRJ. Statistics: SS.