About the Authors

David Bann

david.bann@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

Don Hire

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

Affiliation Department of Aging & Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Rachel Cooper

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

Anda Botoseneanu

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

Affiliation Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, United States of America

Marco Pahor

Affiliation Department of Aging & Geriatric Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Nancy W. Glynn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Roger Fielding

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

Affiliation Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Timothy Church

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Walter T. Ambrosius

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

Affiliation Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

for the LIFE Study Group

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.