About the Authors

Anna Lindam

anna.lindam@ki.se

Affiliation Unit of Upper Gastrointestinal Research, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Catarina Jansson

Affiliation Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Helena Nordenstedt

Affiliation Unit of Upper Gastrointestinal Research, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Nancy L. Pedersen

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jesper Lagergren

Affiliations Unit of Upper Gastrointestinal Research, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Cancer Studies, Kinǵs College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: AL CJ HN NLP JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL CJ HN NLP JL. Wrote the paper: AL CJ HN NLP JL. Design and conception of the study: AL CJ HN NLP JL. Collected the data: NLP.