About the Authors
- Tanica Lyngdoh
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Philippe Vuistiner
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pedro Marques-Vidal
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Valentin Rousson
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Gérard Waeber
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Peter Vollenweider
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Murielle Bochud
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* E-mail: murielle.bochud@chuv.ch
Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Competing Interests
Peter Vollenweider and Gérard Waeber received an unrestricted grant from GlaxoSmithKline to build the CoLaus study. The other authors report no conflict of interest. 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: GW P. Vollenweider. Performed the experiments: GW P. Vollenweider. Analyzed the data: TL MB P. Vuistiner PMV VR. Wrote the paper: TL MB. Redrafting and finalizing of the final version: TL P. Vuistiner PMV VR GW P. Vollenweider MB.