About the Authors

Tanica Lyngdoh

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Philippe Vuistiner

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Pedro Marques-Vidal

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Valentin Rousson

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Gérard Waeber

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Peter Vollenweider

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Murielle Bochud

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.