About the Authors

Idris Guessous

Idris.Guessous@hcuge.ch

Affiliations Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, Community Prevention Unit, University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, Unit of Hypertension, Departments of Specialties of Medicine and Community Medicine and Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Murielle Bochud

Affiliation Community Prevention Unit, University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jean-Marc Theler

Affiliation Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Jean-Michel Gaspoz

Affiliation Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Antoinette Pechère-Bertschi

Affiliation Unit of Hypertension, Departments of Specialties of Medicine and Community Medicine and Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

MB is an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE. This does not alter the authors’ adrence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG MB JMT JMG APB. Performed the experiments: IG JMT. Analyzed the data: IG JMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IG JMT. Wrote the paper: IG MB JMT JMG APB.