About the Authors

Jennifer H. Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer H. Lin, Marc J. Gunter

jhlin@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc J. Gunter

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer H. Lin, Marc J. Gunter

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

JoAnn E. Manson

Affiliations Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kathryn M. Rexrode

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nancy R. Cook

Affiliations Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Kraft

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara B. Cochrane

Affiliation de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rowan T. Chlebowski

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Gloria Y. F. Ho

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Shumin M. Zhang

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and 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: JL MG. Performed the experiments: JL MG. Analyzed the data: JL MG KR NC PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ GH JM RC BC. Wrote the paper: JL.