About the Authors

Ali A. El-Solh

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali A. El-Solh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

solh@buffalo.edu

Affiliations VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yolanda Lawson

Roles Data curation, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Michael Carter

Roles Data curation, Project administration

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Daniel A. El-Solh

Roles Software, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Kari A. Mergenhagen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist