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Flow diagram of participants excluded from the present study.

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posted on 2013-07-16, 03:37 authored by Annika Steffen, Thorkild I A. Sørensen, Sven Knüppel, Noemie Travier, María-José Sánchez, José María Huerta, J. Ramón Quirós, Eva Ardanaz, Miren Dorronsoro, Birgit Teucher, Kuanrong Li, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Daphne van der A, Amalia Mattiello, Domenico Palli, Rosario Tumino, Vittorio Krogh, Paolo Vineis, Antonia Trichopoulou, Philippos Orfanos, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Bo Hedblad, Peter Wallström, Kim Overvad, Jytte Halkjær, Anne Tjønneland, Guy Fagherazzi, Laureen Dartois, Francesca Crowe, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nick Wareham, Lefkos Middleton, Anne M. May, Petra H. M. Peeters, Heiner Boeing

¹No follow-up questionnaire (e.g. due to death before follow-up body weight assessment, not yet approached for follow-up body weight assessment, emigration or non-response to invitation). ²Pregnant at baseline or follow-up. ³10% missing items on FFQ. ⁴Ratio of energy intake (EI) to energy expenditure (EE) estimated from predicted resting energy expenditure. ⁵Missing data on baseline or follow-up weight, waist or height, missing follow-up time. ⁶Baseline height<130 cm, BMI<16 kg/m², 0160 cm, follow-up weight>700 kg. Combination of waist<60 cm and BMI>25 kg/m². ⁷Annual weight change>5 kg (either direction) or annual waist change>7 cm (either direction). ⁸ Baseline cancer, diabetes or cardiovascular disease.⁹ In contrast to the derivation of the model where it is important to obtain unbiased estimates of relative risk, we think only original data should be used in the validation sample and we therefore excluded individuals with missing values.