About the Authors

Michael F. Leitzmann

michael.leitzmann@klinik.uni-regensburg.de

Affiliations Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Regensburg University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany

Steven C. Moore

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Annemarie Koster

Affiliations Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Tamara B. Harris

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yikyung Park

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Albert Hollenbeck

Affiliation AARP, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Arthur Schatzkin

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Specifically, the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study has no connection through AARP (the organization) to any potential contaminating influences through employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFL SCM TBH AS. Performed the experiments: MFL SCM AK YP. Analyzed the data: MFL SCM AK YP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH AS. Wrote the paper: MFL TBH AS.