About the Authors

Kenji Dohi

Affiliations Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Brian C. Kraemer

Affiliations Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Michelle A. Erickson

Affiliation Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Pamela J. McMillan

Affiliations Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Andrej Kovac

Affiliations Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Zuzana Flachbartova

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia

Kim M. Hansen

Affiliations Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Gul N. Shah

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Edward A. Doisy Research Center, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Nader Sheibani

Affiliation Opthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

Therese Salameh

Affiliations Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

William A. Banks

wabanks1@uw.edu

Affiliations Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD BCK MAE AK GNS NS TS WAB. Performed the experiments: KD BCK MAE PJM AK ZF KMH GNS TS. Analyzed the data: KD BCK PJM AK ZF KMH NS TS WAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS BCK WAB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KD BCK MAE PJM AK ZF KMH GNS NS TS WAB.