About the Authors

Katrien Wijndaele

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

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hervé Besson

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kay-Tee Khaw

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen J. Sharp

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Robert Luben

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Amit Bhaniani

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Wareham

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ulf Ekelund

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.