Author contributions
SECONDARY
The authors’ responsibilities were as follows – LS, KGJ, JAL: designed the secondary analysis of the DIVAS study; KGJ, JAL: secured the funding and managed the primary analysis of the DIVAS study; LS, FE: performed the statistical analyses in the DIVAS study and the EPIC-Potsdam study, respectively; LS: drafted the manuscript; KGJ, JAL: supervised the writing; MBS: contributed to data collection in EPIC-Potsdam; FE, KGJ, CW, MBS, JAL: contributed to data interpretation and revised each draft for important intellectual content; KGJ, JAL: take primary responsibility for the final content and are the guarantors; JAL: attests that all listed authors meet the authorship criteria and that no other authors meeting criteria have been omitted; and all authors: read and approved the final manuscript.