About the Authors

Younghoon Kwon

yk2j@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu

Current address: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Faye L. Norby

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Paul N. Jensen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sunil K. Agarwal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elsayed Z. Soliman

Affiliation Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center (EPICARE), Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, and Department of Medicine-Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Gregory Y. H. Lip

Affiliations University of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Aalborg Thrombosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

W. T. Longstreth Jr.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alvaro Alonso

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Susan R. Heckbert

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lin Y. Chen

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK SRH AA LYC. Analyzed the data: YK FLN PNJ AA SRH LYC. Wrote the paper: YK FLN PNJ SKA EZS GYHL WTL AA SRH LYC.