About the Authors

Basile Chaix

chaix@u707.jussieu.fr

Current address: UMR-S 707, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France

Affiliations Inserm, U707, Paris, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, UMR-S 707, Paris, France

Kathy Bean

Affiliation Centre d'Investigations Préventives et Cliniques, Paris, France

Mark Daniel

Affiliations Social Epidemiology and Evaluation Research Unit, Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Fitzroy Victoria, Australia

Shannon N. Zenk

Affiliation Department of Health Systems Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yan Kestens

Affiliation Social and Preventive Medicine Department, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Hélène Charreire

Affiliation Université Paris-Est, Lab'Urba - Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris, Créteil, France

Cinira Leal

Affiliations Inserm, U707, Paris, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, UMR-S 707, Paris, France, EHESP School of Public Health, Rennes, France

Frédérique Thomas

Affiliation Centre d'Investigations Préventives et Cliniques, Paris, France

Noëlla Karusisi

Affiliations Inserm, U707, Paris, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, UMR-S 707, Paris, France

Christiane Weber

Affiliation ERL7230 CNRS Image, Ville, Environnement, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France

Jean-Michel Oppert

Affiliations Inserm U557, Inra U1125, CNAM, EA3200, University Paris13, Bobigny, France, Department of Nutrition, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital (AP-HP), CNRH IdF, University Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Paris, France

Chantal Simon

Affiliation Lyon University, Inserm U870, Inra U1235, CRNH Rhône-Alpes, Pierre Bénite, France

Juan Merlo

Affiliation Unit for Social Epidemiology, Clinical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Bruno Pannier

Affiliation Centre d'Investigations Préventives et Cliniques, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BC FT KB BP. Analyzed the data: BC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB MD SNZ YK HC CL FT NK CW JMO CS JM BP. Wrote the paper: BC.