About the Authors

Frank J. Wolters

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Francesco U. S. Mattace-Raso

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Peter J. Koudstaal

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Albert Hofman

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

M. Arfan Ikram

m.a.ikram@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Heart Brain Connection Collaborative Research Group

Membership of the Heart Brain Connection Collaborative Research Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MAI AH. Data curation: FJW PJK. Formal analysis: FJW. Funding acquisition: MAI. Investigation: FJW MAI FUMR AH. Methodology: MAI FJW FUMR. Project administration: MAI. Resources: AH MAI. Supervision: MAI AH FUMR PJK. Visualization: FJW. Writing – original draft: FJW. Writing – review & editing: FJW FUMR PJK AH MAI.