About the Authors

Travis John Saunders

tsaunders@cheo.on.ca

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mark Stephen Tremblay

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Marie-Ève Mathieu

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mélanie Henderson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, CHU Ste-Justine and University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jennifer O’Loughlin

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Angelo Tremblay

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Philippe Chaput

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

on behalf of the QUALITY cohort research group

Members of the QUALITY cohort research group are listed in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJS MST M-ÉM MH JO AT JPC. Performed the experiments: M-ÉM MH JO AT. Analyzed the data: TJS. Wrote the paper: TJS. Provided critical edits and feedback: MST M-ÉM MH JO AT JPC.