About the Authors

Nicola Vickaryous

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Preventive Neurology Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University London, London, United Kingdom

Mark Jitlal

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Jitlal, Benjamin Meir Jacobs

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preventive Neurology Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University London, London, United Kingdom

Benjamin Meir Jacobs

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Jitlal, Benjamin Meir Jacobs

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preventive Neurology Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University London, London, United Kingdom

Rod Middleton

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UKMS Register, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

Siddharthan Chandran

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, UK Dementia Research Institute at Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Niall John James MacDougall

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Neurology Department, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, Neurology Department, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Gavin Giovannoni

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Preventive Neurology Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University London, London, United Kingdom, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Neurology, Royal London Hospital, BartsHealth NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Ruth Dobson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ruth.dobson@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliations Preventive Neurology Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Neurology, Royal London Hospital, BartsHealth NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

None of the authors have any financial disclosures or competing interests relevant to this work.