About the Authors

Aizhen Jin

Affiliation National Registry of Diseases Office, Health Promotion Board, Singapore, Singapore

Woon-Puay Koh

Affiliations Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Epidemiology, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Khuan Yew Chow

Affiliation National Registry of Diseases Office, Health Promotion Board, Singapore, Singapore

Jian-Min Yuan

Affiliations Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tazeen Hasan Jafar

tazeen.jafar@duke-nus.edu.sg

Affiliation Laboratory of Cardiovascular and Renal Risk Reduction, Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

All authors declare that there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: THJ. Performed the experiments: THJ WPK. Analyzed the data: AJ THJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WPK KYC JY. Wrote the paper: AJ WPK KYC JY THJ.