About the Authors

Michele Drehmer

michele.drehmer@gmail.com

Affiliation Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Bruce Bartholow Duncan

Affiliation Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Gilberto Kac

Affiliation Department of Social and Applied Nutrition, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria Inês Schmidt

Affiliation Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contribution(s) to critical aspects of the conduct of the research, revising it for important intellectual content, approval of the final, submitted version): MD BBD GK MIS. Conceived and designed the experiments: MD MIS. Performed the experiments: MD BBD GK MIS. Analyzed the data: MD MIS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD MIS. Wrote the paper: MD BBD GK MIS.