About the Authors

Maritza Muñoz-Pareja

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IdiPaz; CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Luz M. León-Muñoz

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IdiPaz; CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Pilar Guallar-Castillón

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IdiPaz; CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Auxiliadora Graciani

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IdiPaz; CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Esther López-García

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IdiPaz; CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

José R. Banegas

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IdiPaz; CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

fernando.artalejo@uam.es

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IdiPaz; CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflict: The ENRICA study is funded by Sanofi-Aventis. Additional funding is obtained from FIS grant PI09/1626 and from the ‘Cátedra UAM de Epidemiología y Control del Riesgo Cardiovascular’. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMP FRA. Analyzed the data: MMP LMLM PGC. Wrote the paper: MMP FRA. Contributed to data interpretation: MMP LMLM PGC AG ELG JRB FRA. Reviewed the manuscript for important intellectual content: MMP LMLM PGC AG ELG JRB FRA. Read and approved final manuscript: MMP LMLM PGC AG ELG JRB FRA. Primary responsibility for final content: FRA.