About the Authors

Pedro Marques-Vidal

Pedro-Manuel.Marques-Vidal@chuv.ch

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Rémy Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Murielle Bochud

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

François Bastardot

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Roland von Känel

Affiliation Division of Psychosomatic Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Fred Paccaud

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jennifer Glaus

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Martin Preisig

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Gérard Waeber

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Peter Vollenweider

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Peter Vollenweider and Gérard Waeber received an unrestricted grant from GlaxoSmithKline to build the CoLaus study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors report no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PV GW MP. Performed the experiments: FB. Analyzed the data: RS PMV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB. Wrote the paper: RS PMV. Reviewed/edited manuscript, contributed to discussion: FP GW JG MB MP PV RvK.