About the Authors

Eero Kajantie

eero.kajantie@helsinki.fi

Affiliations National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Katri Räikkönen

Affiliation University of Helsinki, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Helsinki, Finland

Markus Henriksson

Affiliations National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland, Centre of Military Medicine, Finnish Defence Forces, Lahti, Finland

Jukka T. Leskinen

Affiliation National Defence College, Finnish Defence Forces, Tuusula, Finland

Tom Forsén

Affiliations Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Vasa Health Care Centre, Vasa, Finland

Kati Heinonen

Affiliation University of Helsinki, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Helsinki, Finland

Anu-Katriina Pesonen

Affiliations Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, University of Helsinki, Department of Behavioural Sciences, Helsinki, Finland

Clive Osmond

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingsom

David J. P. Barker

Affiliations MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingsom, Heart Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Chair of Fetal Programming, King Saud University, Riad, Saudi Arabia

Johan G. Eriksson

Affiliations National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained funding: EK DJPB JGE. Conceived and designed the experiments: EK MH JTL TF CO DJPB JGE. Performed the experiments: EK JGE. Analyzed the data: EK CO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK MH JTL TF CO DJPB JGE. Wrote the paper: EK KR MH JTL TF KH AKP CO DJPB JGE.