About the Authors

Margaret P. Rayman

m.rayman@surrey.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Gabrielle Blundell-Pound

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Roberto Pastor-Barriuso

Affiliation National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health and Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Eliseo Guallar

Affiliations Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

Holger Steinbrenner

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Saverio Stranges

Affiliation Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPR. Performed the experiments: GB-P MPR. Analyzed the data: RP-B EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPR RP-B. Wrote the paper: MPR RP-B SS. Raised funding: MPR. Reviewed and edited the manuscript: MPR GB-P RP-B EG HS SS.