About the Authors

Nicole Sirotin

nicolesirotinmd@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Donald R. Hoover

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Qiuhu Shi

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Kathryn Anastos

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Sheri D. Weiser

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS KA SDW. Performed the experiments: NS KA. Analyzed the data: NS DRH QS KA. Wrote the paper: NS SDW. Participated in editing and critical revisions of the manuscript: NS DRH KA SDW.