About the Authors

Tina Landsvig Berentzen

tb@ipm.regionh.dk

Affiliation Institute for Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marianne Uhre Jakobsen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark

Jytte Halkjaer

Affiliation The Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anne Tjønneland

Affiliation The Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kim Overvad

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark

Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

Affiliation Institute for Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO TIAS. Performed the experiments: AT KO. Analyzed the data: TB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB. Wrote the paper: TB. Critical revision of the manuscript for its intellectual content: MUJ JH AT. Initiated the study: TIAS OK. Initiated and coordinated the preceding data collection AT KO. Conducted the statistical analyses and wrote the manuscript: TB. Assisted with statistical analyses, interpretation and discussion of the results, and reviewed the manuscript for its intellectual content: TIAS KO.