About the Authors
- David Bann
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* E-mail: david.bann@ucl.ac.uk
Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
- Don Hire
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Todd Manini
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Affiliation Department of Aging & Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Rachel Cooper
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Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
- Anda Botoseneanu
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Affiliation Department of Health Policy Studies and Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan—Dearborn/Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Mary M. McDermott
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Affiliation Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, United States of America
- Marco Pahor
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Affiliation Department of Aging & Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Nancy W. Glynn
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America
- Roger Fielding
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Affiliation Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Abby C. King
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Affiliation Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Timothy Church
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Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
- Walter T. Ambrosius
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Thomas Gill
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Affiliation Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- for the LIFE Study Group
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¶Membership of the LIFE Study Group is listed in
S2 Appendix .
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DB TG RC DH WTA AB TM. Analyzed the data: DH WTA. Wrote the paper: DB TG. Contributed to the critical revision of manuscript drafts: DB DH TM RC AB MMM MP NWG RF ACK TC WTA TG. Interpreted the data: DB DH TM RC AB MMM MP NWG RF ACK TC WTA TG. Approved the final version: DB DH TM RC AB MMM MP NWG RF ACK TC WTA TG. Contributed to the acquisition of data: TM MMM MP NWG RF ACK TC WTA TG. Developed analytic plans: DB TG RC DH WTA AB TM.