Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany

Annette Peters, Annette Peters, Susanne Göttlicher, Margit Heier, Thomas Hendel, Andreas Hörlein, Stefan Karrasch, Irene Pschibul-Thamm, Holger Schulz, Julia Six-Merker, Inke Thiele, Sigrid Thierry, H.-Erich Wichmann & Kathrin Wolf

Chair of Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Annette Peters, Annette Peters, Nina Mangold & Christa Meisinger

NAKO e.V., Am Taubenfeld 21/2, 69123, Heidelberg, Germany

Maren Albrecht, Barbara Bohn, Kerstin Bohnert, Diana Heinemeyer, Lisa Kofink, Anke Macdonald, Björn Mergarten & Leo Panreck

German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Karin Halina Greiser, Hermann Brenner, Antje Damms-Machado, Florian Herbolsheimer, Rudolf Kaaks, Daniel Kraft, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Juliane Melzer, Martin Schmidt, Oliver Stegle & Karen Steindorf

Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, Germany

Wolfgang Ahrens, Kathrin Günther, Ulrike Haug, Iris Pigeot, Achim Reineke & Hajo Zeeb

Faculty 3: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bibliothekstraße 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

Iris Pigeot

Berufsgenossenschaft Nahrungsmittel und Gastgewerbe, Mannheim, Germany

Maren Albrecht

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Fabian Bamberg, Margit Ecker, Lisa Kretz & Christopher L. Schlett

Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Till Bärnighausen, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Peter Schirmacher & Ramona Sowade

University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Heiko Becher & Nadia Obi

Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Klaus Berger, Bettina Braun, André Karch, Nicole Legath & Henning Teismann

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Achim Beule

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Achim Beule

Department of Epidemiology (Closed), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Institute for Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Robin Bülow

Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Brunswick, Germany

Stefanie Castell, Yvonne Kemmling & Gérard Krause

Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Marcus Dörr

German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nina Ebert, Guido Giani, Birgit Klüppelholz, Oliver Kuß, Anna-Therese Lehnich & Wolfgang Rathmann

Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany

Carina Emmel, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Börge Schmidt & Andreas Stang

University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Beate Fischer, Michael Leitzmann, Anja M. Sedlmeier & Andrea Weber

Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Claus-Werner Franzke & Karin B. Michels

German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Sylvia Gastell & Matthias B. Schulze

Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany

Matthias Günther & Jochen Hirsch

University Center of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Plastic Surgery at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Klaus-Peter Günther

Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Informatics, Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Johannes Haerting, Nadja Kartschmit, Bianca Klee, Alexander Kluttig, Rafael Mikolajczyk & Johannes Zschocke

Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Iris M. Heid

KORA Study Centre, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Margit Heier

Department of Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital, Munich, Germany

Thomas Hendel & Sonja Selder

Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Wolfgang Hoffmann, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Stefan Ostrzinski, Sabine Schipf, Gunthard Stübs, Henry Völzke, Nicole Werner & Robert Wolff

Krebsregister Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

Bernd Holleczek

Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Heike Hölling & Gina Schöne

Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Stefan Karrasch

Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Keil, Lilian Krist & Stefan N. Willich

Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Thomas Keil

Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Anna Köttgen

Department of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, University Hospital, School of Dentistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Jan Kühnisch

Institute of Epidemiology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Wolfgang Lieb & Sabina Waniek

Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Jakob Linseisen

Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Jakob Linseisen & Christa Meisinger

Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

Jakob Linseisen

University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Markus Loeffler & Kerstin Wirkner

Pattern Analysis and Learning Group, Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Institute for Urban Public Health, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany

Susanne Moebus

Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany

Ulrich Mueller

Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Matthias Nauck

Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany

Thoralf Niendorf

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Konstantin Nikolaou

Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Tobias Pischon

Biobank Technology Platform, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Tobias Pischon

Hospital St. Marienstift Magdeburg GmbH, Magdeburg, Germany

Stefanie Roloff

Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dan Rujescu

Chair of Synoptic Dentistry, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Stefan Rupf

Department of Rheumatology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Oliver Sander

IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany

Tamara Schikowski

Department of Internal Medicine 1, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Georg Schmidt

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Matthias B. Schulze

Department of Ophthalmology, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Alexandra Schweig

Institute of Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Med. Faculty, Otto-Von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Enno Swart

University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Nina Mangold, Irene Pschibul-Thamm & Sigrid Thierry

Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Marius Ueffing

Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany

Melanie Zinkhan

Institute of Physics, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Johannes Zschocke

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tobias Pischon

Germany State Institute of Health, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Erlangen, Germany

Thomas Keil

The core writing group, who drafted this publication, consisted of AP, KHG, SG, members of the (scientific) project management of the central executive office and members of the MRI Core. The members of the German National Cohort (NAKO) Consortium made substantial contributions to this publication and revised it critically.