About the Authors
- Raymond Noordam
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Affiliation Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Steffy W. M. Jansen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Steffy W. M. Jansen, Abimbola A. Akintola
Affiliation Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Abimbola A. Akintola
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Contributed equally to this work with: Steffy W. M. Jansen, Abimbola A. Akintola
Affiliation Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Nicole Y. L. Oei
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Affiliations Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Andrea B. Maier
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Affiliations Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing, the Netherlands
- Hanno Pijl
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Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- P. Eline Slagboom
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Affiliations Section of Molecular Epidemiology, department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing, the Netherlands
- Rudi G. J. Westendorp
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Affiliations Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing, the Netherlands
- Jeroen van der Grond
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Affiliation Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Anton J. M. de Craen
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Affiliations Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing, the Netherlands
- Diana van Heemst
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* E-mail: d.van_heemst@lumc.nl
Affiliations Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing, the Netherlands
- On behalf of the Leiden Longevity Study group
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RN SWMJ AAA DvH. Performed the experiments: RN. Analyzed the data: RN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJMdeC. Wrote the paper: RN SWMJ AAA DVH. Initial data collection and study design of the Leiden Longevity Study and its subcohorts: PES RGJW AJMdC ABM DvH. Data quality and advising the analyses: NYLO JvdG. Endocrinological advise: HP. Critically reading and commenting on the versions of the initial manuscript: DvH RN SWMJ AAA NYLO ABM HP PES RGJW JvdG AJMdC.