About the Authors

Mariam Molokhia

mariam.molokhia@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Paul McKeigue

Affiliation Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Vasa Curcin

Affiliation Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Azeem Majeed

Affiliation Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

MM has received grants from Pfizer and from the Serious Adverse Events Consortium (collaboration of industry and academia).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM PM. Performed the experiments: MM PM. Analyzed the data: MM VC PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM MM VC PM. Wrote the paper: MM. Other: Contributed to writing and interpretation of results: AM. Provided help with interpretation of results: PM.