About the Authors

Alan A. Cohen

Alan.Cohen@USherbrooke.ca

Affiliation Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave N, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

Qing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Li, Emmanuel Milot

Affiliation Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave N, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

Emmanuel Milot

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Li, Emmanuel Milot

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3351, boul. des Forges, C.P. 500, Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A 5H7, Canada

Maxime Leroux

Affiliation Economics Department, ESG, Université du Québec à Montréal, 315 rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC, H2X 3X2, Canada

Samuel Faucher

Affiliation Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave N, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

Vincent Morissette-Thomas

Affiliation Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave N, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

Véronique Legault

Affiliation Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave N, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

Linda P. Fried

Affiliation Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W. 168th Street, R1408, New York, NY, 10032, United States of America

Luigi Ferrucci

Affiliation Translational Gerontology Branch, Longitudinal Studies Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, MedStar Harbor Hospital, 3001 S. Hanover Street, Baltimore, MD, 21225, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QL EM ML SF VMT VL AAC. Performed the experiments: QL EM ML SF VL AAC. Analyzed the data: QL EM ML SF VMT VL AAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LPF LF. Wrote the paper: QL EM ML SF VMT VL LPF LF AAC.