About the Authors

Helmut Schröder

hschroeder@imim.es

Affiliations Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group (CARIN), REGICOR Study Group, Research Programme in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Lourdes Ribas

Affiliations Fundación para la Investigación Nutricional (Nutrition Research Foundation), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Corinna Koebnick

Affiliation Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Anna Funtikova

Affiliations Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group (CARIN), REGICOR Study Group, Research Programme in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Santiago F. Gomez

Affiliations Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group (CARIN), REGICOR Study Group, Research Programme in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, Fundación THAO, Barcelona, Spain

Montserat Fíto

Affiliations Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group (CARIN), REGICOR Study Group, Research Programme in Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Disorders (RICAD), IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Carmen Perez-Rodrigo

Affiliation Community Nutrition Unit, Bilbao Department of Public Health, Bilbao, Spain

Lluis Serra-Majem

Affiliations Fundación para la Investigación Nutricional (Nutrition Research Foundation), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS LR CK AF SFG MF CPR LS-M. Performed the experiments: HS LR CK AF SFG MF CPR LS-M. Analyzed the data: HS LR CK AF SFG MF CPR LS-M. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS LR CK AF SFG MF CPR LS-M. Wrote the paper: HS.