About the Authors

Natalie Slopen

maalbert@partners.org

Affiliations Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert J. Glynn

Affiliations Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Julie E. Buring

Affiliations Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tené T. Lewis

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David R. Williams

Affiliations Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michelle A. Albert

maalbert@partners.org

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEB RJG MAA NS DRW TTL. Analyzed the data: NS MAA. Wrote the paper: NS MAA TTL DRW RJG JEB. Interpretation of data: DRW TTL MAA NS.