About the Authors

Markus Schürks

markus.schuerks@post.harvard.edu

Affiliations Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Julie E. Buring

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul M. Ridker

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel I. Chasman

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel I. Chasman, Tobias Kurth

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tobias Kurth

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel I. Chasman, Tobias Kurth

Affiliations Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, INSERM Unit 708 – Neuroepidemiology, Paris, France, UPMC Univ Paris 06, F-75005, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS JEB PMR DC TK. Performed the experiments: MS DC. Analyzed the data: MS DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEB PMR DC. Wrote the paper: MS DC. Revised the article for important intellectual content: JEB PMR TK.