About the Authors

Julie A. Womack

julie.womack@va.gov

Affiliation VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joseph L. Goulet

Affiliation VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Cynthia Gibert

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Cynthia Brandt

Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Chung Chou Chang

Affiliation Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Barbara Gulanski

Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Liana Fraenkel

Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kristin Mattocks

Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David Rimland

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas

Affiliation Medical Service, Michael E. De Bakey Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Janet Tate

Affiliation VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael T. Yin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Amy C. Justice

Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

for the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Project Team

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAW JG CG CB CCC BG DR MRB ACJ. Performed the experiments: JAW JG CCC. Analyzed the data: JAW JG CCC ACJ. Wrote the manuscript: JAW JG CG CB CCC BG LF KM DR MRB JT MTY ACJ. Acquisition of data: ACJ CB MRB DR CG.