Correction to: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2014) 68, 517–525; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2014.18; published online 26 February 2014 Since publication, the authors have found an SAS coding error in the LDL-cholesterol calculation. The other biomarker outcomes of the paper (HDL-cholesterol, non-HDL-cholesterol and triglycerides) are not affected by the error.