About the Authors

Andrzej Pajak

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Krystyna Szafraniec

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Ruzena Kubinova

Affiliation Centre for Health Monitoring, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

Sofia Malyutina

Affiliation Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Anne Peasey

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Hynek Pikhart

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Yuri Nikitin

Affiliation Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Michael Marmot

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Martin Bobak

m.bobak@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB A. Pajak RK SM MM KS. Performed the experiments: MB A. Pajak RK SM MM A. Peasey HP YN. Analyzed the data: MM KS. Wrote the paper: A. Peasey MB KS MM.