About the Authors

Yuri Milaneschi

y.milaneschi@ggzingeest.nl

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center/GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Matteo Cesari

Affiliations Institut du Vieillissement, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida-Institute on Aging, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Eleanor M. Simonsick

Affiliation Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nicole Vogelzangs

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center/GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alka M. Kanaya

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

Kristine Yaffe

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Paola Patrignani

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Imaging and Center of Excellent on Aging, “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy

Andrea Metti

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

Stephen B. Kritchevsky

Affiliation Sticht Center on Aging, Wake Forest University-School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Marco Pahor

Affiliation Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida-Institute on Aging, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Luigi Ferrucci

Affiliation Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Brenda W. J. H. Penninx

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center/GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

for the Health ABC study

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM MC ES NV AK KY AM SK MP LF BP. Performed the experiments: MC PP. Analyzed the data: YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP. Wrote the paper: YM. Methodological and statistical supervision: MC ES NV AK KY AM LF SK BP.