About the Authors

Morgana L. Mongraw-Chaffin

mmongraw@jhsph.edu

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

Kunihiro Matsushita

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

Frederick L. Brancati

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

Brad C. Astor

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

Josef Coresh

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

Stephen O. Crawford

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Davita Clinical Research, Inc, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Maria Inês Schmidt

Affiliations School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ron C. Hoogeveen

Affiliations Section of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christie M. Ballantyne

Affiliations Section of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeffery Hunter Young

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

Competing Interests

Stephen Crawford was previously, but is no longer employed by Resolution Health, Inc. His participation in this research was independent and not as a representative of Resolution Health, Inc. Dr. Crawford is now Senior Manager of Epidemiology at Davita Clinical Research. Dr. Crawford's affiliation with Davita Clinical Research does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMC KM FLB JC SOC JHY. Analyzed the data: MMC. Wrote the paper: MMC KM FLB BCA JC SOC MIS RCH CMB JHY.