About the Authors

Richard J. Silverwood

Richard.Silverwood@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Marcus Richards

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Mary Pierce

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Rebecca Hardy

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Naveed Sattar

Affiliation BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Charles Ferro

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Caroline Savage

Affiliation School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Diana Kuh

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Dorothea Nitsch

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

On behalf of the NSHD scientific and data collection teams

Membership of the NSHD scientific and data collection teams is provided in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJS MR MP RH NS CF CS DK DN. Performed the experiments: RJS MR MP RH DK DN. Analyzed the data: RJS MR MP DK DN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS. Wrote the paper: RJS MR MP RH NS CF CS DK DN.