About the Authors

Brian Buijsse

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Duk-Hee Lee

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Jung-gu, Daegu, South Korea

Lyn Steffen

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Richard R. Erickson

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Russell V. Luepker

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

David R. Jacobs Jr

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jordan L. Holtzman

holtz003@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRJ JLH. Performed the experiments: RRE. Analyzed the data: BB DHL LS RVL DRJ. Wrote the paper: DRJ.