About the Authors

Michal Czerwinski

mczerwinski@pzh.gov.pl

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland

Louise-Anne McNutt

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, SUNY School of Public Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jack A. DeHovitz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Andrzej Zielinski

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland

Magdalena Rosinska

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conception and design of the work: LAM MC MR. Acquisition of data: MR. Analysis and model building: MC MR. Wrote the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content: MC LAM JAD AZ MR.