About the Authors

Lise Geisler Andersen

lg@ipm.regionh.dk

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Ängquist

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Johan G. Eriksson

Affiliations Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland, Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland, Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Tom Forsen

Affiliations Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Vasa Health Care Center, Vasa, Finland

Michael Gamborg

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Clive Osmond

Affiliation MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom

Jennifer L. Baker

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LGA LÄ JGE MG CO JLB TIAS. Analyzed the data: LGA LÄ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGE TF JLB TIAS. Wrote the paper: LGA TIAS. Data management, conduction and implementation of the data and statistical analyses, planning of statistical analysis: LÄ. Conduction of preliminary statistical analyses: MG. Interpretation of data: LÄ TF MG JLB. Analysis and interpretation of data: CO TIAS. Critical revision of the manuscript: LÄ JGE TF MG CO JLB. Final approval of the submitted version: LGA LÄ JGE TF MG CO JLB TIAS.