About the Authors

Gunilla Journath

Gunilla.Journath@ki.se

Affiliation Unit of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Niklas Hammar

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden

Stig Elofsson

Affiliation Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Anette Linnersjö

Affiliations Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Max Vikström

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Göran Walldius

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ingvar Krakau

Affiliation Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Peter Lindgren

Affiliations Medical Management Center, MMC, Department of Learning, Information, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

Ulf de Faire

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mai-Lis Hellénius

Affiliation Unit of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

NH is employed by AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal. PL is employed by IVBAR AB, has been employed by OptumInsight (Sweden) and has received a consultancy fee from Amgen AB and Merck & Co, outside the submitted work. GJ has received travel grants from the Swedish Society of Medicine, acted as a consultant to Amgen AB and received a fee from MSD, outside the submitted work. GW has received fees for lectures from AstraZeneca. MLH has received grants from the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, Stockholm County Council, King Gustaf V and Queen Victoria's Freemason’s Foundation and fees from MSD, SEB, AstraZeneca, ICA, Apoteket AB and Praktikertjänst, outside the submitted work. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: GJ MLH NH UdF IK GW SE AL MV PL. Analyzed the data: GJ SE AL MV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJ SE AL MV. Wrote the paper: GJ MLH NH UdF IK GW SE AL MV PL.