About the Authors
- Thor Aspelund
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thor Aspelund, Vilmundur Gudnason
Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Vilmundur Gudnason
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thor Aspelund, Vilmundur Gudnason
* E-mail: v.gudnason@hjarta.is
Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Bergrun Tinna Magnusdottir
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Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Karl Andersen
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Affiliations University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland
- Gunnar Sigurdsson
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Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland
- Bolli Thorsson
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Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Laufey Steingrimsdottir
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Affiliation University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Julia Critchley
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Affiliation Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Kathleen Bennett
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Martin O'Flaherty
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Affiliation Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Simon Capewell
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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.