About the Authors

Thor Aspelund

Contributed equally to this work with: Thor Aspelund, Vilmundur Gudnason

Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Vilmundur Gudnason

Contributed equally to this work with: Thor Aspelund, Vilmundur Gudnason

v.gudnason@hjarta.is

Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Bergrun Tinna Magnusdottir

Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland

Karl Andersen

Affiliations University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland

Gunnar Sigurdsson

Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland

Bolli Thorsson

Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland

Laufey Steingrimsdottir

Affiliation University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Julia Critchley

Affiliation Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Kathleen Bennett

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Martin O'Flaherty

Affiliation Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Simon Capewell

Affiliation Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VG GS SC. Performed the experiments: VG BT. Analyzed the data: TA VG BTM JC SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA VG KA GS BT LS JC KB MO SC. Wrote the paper: TA VG BTM KA GS BT LS JC KB MO SC.