About the Authors

David Nanchen

david.nanchen@chuv.ch

Affiliations Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Nicolas Rodondi

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jacques Cornuz

Affiliation Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Teresa Hillier

Affiliation Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest/Hawaii, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Kristine E. Ensrud

Affiliation Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Medicine and Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Jane A. Cauley

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Douglas C. Bauer

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DN NR. Performed the experiments: DN. Analyzed the data: DN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH KEE JAC DCB. Wrote the paper: DN. Interpretation of the results, revised the article critically for important intellectual content, and approved the final version to be published: DN NR JC TH KEE JAC DCB.