About the Authors

Diane E. Bild

dbild@pcori.org

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robyn McClelland

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Joel D. Kaufman

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Medicine, and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Roger Blumenthal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory L. Burke

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

J. Jeffrey Carr

Affiliation Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Wendy S. Post

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas C. Register

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Steven Shea

Affiliation Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Moyses Szklo

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DEB RM JDK. Performed the experiments: GLB JJC WSP SS. Analyzed the data: RM. Wrote the paper: DEB RM JSK RM GLB JJC WSP TCR SS MS RB.