About the Authors

Karen A. Ertel

kertel@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Society, Human Development, and Health & Kellogg Health Scholars Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karestan C. Koenen

Affiliations Department of Society, Human Development, and Health & Kellogg Health Scholars Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Janet W. Rich-Edwards

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew W. Gillman

Affiliations Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: KAE. Wrote the paper: KAE. Conceived the research question: KAE. Interpreted data results: KAE KK JR-E MWG. Contributed to study concept: KK MWG. Revised article for intellectual content: KK JR-E MWG. Approved final version of article: KK JR-E MWG. Contributed to data acquisition: JR-E. Primary acquisition of data: MWG.