About the Authors

Sonia S. Anand

anands@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology/Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mark A. Tarnopolsky

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Shirya Rashid

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Karleen M. Schulze

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dipika Desai

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Andrew Mente

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology/Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sandy Rao

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Salim Yusuf

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology/Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hertzel C. Gerstein

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology/Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Arya M. Sharma

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS SA HG MT SY. Performed the experiments: MT AS DD S. Rao SA. Analyzed the data: KS S. Rashid AM MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S. Rashid MT. Wrote the paper: SA MT S. Rashid DD AM SY HG AS.