About the Authors

Mika Kivimäki

m.kivimaki@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Debbie A. Lawlor

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre of Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

George Davey Smith

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre of Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Meena Kumari

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Ann Donald

Affiliations Vascular Physiology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Annie Britton

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Juan P. Casas

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Tina Shah

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Eric Brunner

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Timpson

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre of Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Julian P. J. Halcox

Affiliation Vascular Physiology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Michelle A. Miller

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Steve E. Humphries

Affiliation Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London, United Kingdom

John Deanfield

Affiliations Vascular Physiology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Michael G. Marmot

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Aroon D. Hingorani

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK DAL GDS MK AD AB JPC TS EB NJT JPJH MAM SEH JD MM AH. Analyzed the data: MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK AD JPJH SEH JD MM. Wrote the paper: MK DAL GDS MK AD AB JPC TS EB NJT JPJH MAM SEH JD MM AH.