About the Authors

Ranee Chatterjee

ranee.chatterjee@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Leila Zelnick

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Kenneth J. Mukamal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Jennifer A. Nettleton

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Bryan R. Kestenbaum

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

David S. Siscovick

Affiliation The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Joachim H. Ix

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Russell Tracy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Andrew N. Hoofnagle

Affiliation Department of Lab Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Laura P. Svetkey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

David Edelman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Ian H. de Boer

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC DE IHdB. Performed the experiments: LZ. Analyzed the data: RC LZ DE IHdB JAN. Wrote the paper: RC LZ DE IHdB LPS KJM JAN BRK DSS JHI RT ANH.