About the Authors

Minna K. Salonen

minna.salonen@thl.fi

Affiliations Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland

Eero Kajantie

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Clive Osmond

Affiliation Epidemiology Resource Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom

Tom Forsén

Affiliations Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Vaasa Health Care Centre, Diabetes Unit, Vaasa, Finland, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Division, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Hilkka Ylihärsilä

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Maria Paile-Hyvärinen

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

D. J. P. Barker

Affiliation Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Johan G. Eriksson

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical revision of the manuscript: EK CO TF HY MP-H DJPH JGE. Final approval of the submitted version: MKS EK CO TF HY MP-H DJPB JGE. Conceived and designed the experiments: MKS EK CO TF HY MP-H DJPB JGE. Analyzed the data: MKS CO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGE TF HY DJPB. Wrote the paper: MKS EK JGE.