About the Authors

Anjali Sharma

anjali.sharma@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Donald R. Hoover

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Qiuhu Shi

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Deborah Gustafson

Affiliation Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Michael W. Plankey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Ronald C. Hershow

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Phyllis C. Tien

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elizabeth T. Golub

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kathryn Anastos

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS KA. Analyzed the data: AS DRH QS. Wrote the paper: AS DRH QS DG MWP RCH PCT ETG KA.