About the Authors

Richard A. Jensen

richaj@uw.edu

Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Elisabet Agardh

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Ophthalmology, University Hospital MAS, Malmö, Sweden

Åke Lernmark

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, Clinical Research Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

Nicholas L. Smith

Affiliations Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David S. Siscovick

Affiliations Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Carina Törn

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Clinical Research Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

on behalf of the DISS Group

Members of the DISS group are listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAJ EA AL NLS DSS CT. Performed the experiments: EA AL SG CT. Analyzed the data: RAJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA AL SG NLS DSS CT. Wrote the paper: RAJ EA AL SG NLS DSS CT.