About the Authors

Qimei He

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Health Research and Education Institute of the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System, Honolulu, Hawaii, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Brian J. Morris

brian.morris@sydney.edu.au

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

John S. Grove

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Public Health, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

Helen Petrovitch

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Health Research and Education Institute of the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System, Honolulu, Hawaii, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Webster Ross

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Health Research and Education Institute of the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System, Honolulu, Hawaii, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Kamal H. Masaki

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Beatriz Rodriguez

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Public Health, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

Randi Chen

Affiliation Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Timothy A. Donlon

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Research, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

D. Craig Willcox

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Human Welfare, Okinawa University, Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan

Bradley J. Willcox

Affiliations Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Physicians’ Office Tower, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Health Research and Education Institute of the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System, Honolulu, Hawaii, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Research, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: QH JSG RC. Wrote the paper: QH BJM JSG HP WR KHM TAD BJW. Conceived and designed the analyses presented: QH BJW TAD DCW. Performed the work: JSG HP WR KHM BR TAD.