About the Authors
- Becca S. Feldman
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* E-mail: BeccaFe@clalit.org.il
Affiliation Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician's Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Chandra J. Cohen-Stavi
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Affiliation Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician's Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Morton Leibowitz
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Affiliations Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician's Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
- Moshe B. Hoshen
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Affiliation Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician's Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Shepherd R. Singer
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Israeli Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
- Haim Bitterman
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Affiliations Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician's Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Nicky Lieberman
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Affiliation Community Medicine Division, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Ran D. Balicer
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Affiliations Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician's Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BSF SRS CJC NL RDB HB. Analyzed the data: MBH SRS CJC ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBH SRS. Wrote the paper: ML BSF CJC RDB. Clinical adviser: ML. Statistical methods adviser: MBH. Critically reviewed/edited the manuscript: HB NL. Guarantor: RDB.