About the Authors

Mark Canney

mcanney@tcd.ie

Affiliations The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity Health Kidney Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Matthew D. L. O’Connell

Affiliation The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Catriona M. Murphy

Affiliation The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Neil O’Leary

Affiliation The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Mark A. Little

Affiliation Trinity Health Kidney Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Conall M. O’Seaghdha

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Rose Anne Kenny

Affiliation The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: TILDA was partly funded by Irish Life in the form of a charitable gift. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This did not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC MOC CM NOL ML COS RK. Performed the experiments: MC. Analyzed the data: MC MOC CM NOL ML COS RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC MOC CM NOL ML COS RK. Wrote the paper: MC MOC CM NOL ML COS RK.