About the Authors

Todd R. Sponholtz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

spnhltz@bu.edu

Affiliation Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

Ramachandran S. Vasan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University School of Medicine, Framingham, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.