About the Authors
- Guowei Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Guowei Li, Jonathan D. Adachi
* E-mail: jd.adachi@sympatico.ca (JDA); lig28@mcmaster.ca (GL)
Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Lehana Thabane
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, St. Joseph’s Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- George Ioannidis
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Courtney Kennedy
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Alexandra Papaioannou
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Jonathan D. Adachi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Guowei Li, Jonathan D. Adachi
* E-mail: jd.adachi@sympatico.ca (JDA); lig28@mcmaster.ca (GL)
Affiliations St. Joseph’s Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
Dr. Jonathan D. Adachi was a consultant and speaker of Sanofi-Aventis. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GL JDA. Performed the experiments: JDA. Analyzed the data: GL LT JDA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL LT JDA. Wrote the paper: GL LT JDA. Critical revisions of the manuscript: GI CK AP.