About the Authors

Meian He

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Tsegaselassie Workalemahu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

JoAnn E. Manson

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frank B. Hu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lu Qi

nhlqi@channing.harvard.edu.

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LQ FBH. Performed the experiments: MH TW. Analyzed the data: MH TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEM. Wrote the paper: MH LQ FBH JEM.