About the Authors

Emiliano Albanese

emiliano.albanese@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Science, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bjørn Heine Strand

Affiliation Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Jack M. Guralnik

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kushang V. Patel

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Diana Kuh

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

Rebecca Hardy

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EA. Performed the experiments: EA BHS RH DK. Analyzed the data: EA BHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH DK. Wrote the paper: EA. Revised the manuscript for important intellectual content at all stages of preparation: RH. Provided important scientific inputs: BHS DK. Revised the manuscript: JMG KVP DK BHS.