About the Authors
- Nicolas Rodondi
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* E-mail: Nicolas.Rodondi@insel.ch
Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Isabella Locatelli
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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
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Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Javed Butler
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Affiliation Cardiology Division, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Eric Vittinghoff
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Eleanor Simonsick
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Affiliation Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Suzanne Satterfield
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Anne B. Newman
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Peter W. F. Wilson
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Affiliation Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Mark J. Pletcher
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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
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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.