About the Authors
- Katrien Wijndaele
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Affiliations Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Research Foundation Flanders, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Søren Brage
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Hervé Besson
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Kay-Tee Khaw
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Stephen J. Sharp
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Robert Luben
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Amit Bhaniani
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nicholas J. Wareham
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Ulf Ekelund
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* E-mail: ulf.ekelund@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KW UE NJW K-TK. Performed the experiments: KW. Analyzed the data: KW SJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB RL SJS. Wrote the paper: KW. Performed statistics: KW SJS. Interpretation of data: KW SB UE. Responsible for data collection and study design, critical input on all versions and approval of final version of the manuscript: KW SB HB KT-K SJS RL AB NJW UE.