About the Authors

Nicolas Rodondi

Nicolas.Rodondi@insel.ch

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Isabella Locatelli

Affiliations Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Drahomir Aujesky

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Javed Butler

Affiliation Cardiology Division, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Eric Vittinghoff

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eleanor Simonsick

Affiliation Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Suzanne Satterfield

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Anne B. Newman

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter W. F. Wilson

Affiliation Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mark J. Pletcher

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Douglas C. Bauer

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

for the Health ABC Study

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NR. Performed the experiments: NR IL EV. Analyzed the data: NR IL EV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN DB. Wrote the paper: NR. Critical revision of the manuscript: NR IL DA JB EV ES SS AN PW MP DB. Interpretation of data: NR IL DA JB EV ES SS AN PW MP DB.