About the Authors

Johannes Nairz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Pediatrics III, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Alex Messner

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Sophia J. Kiechl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Neurology, Hochzirl Hospital, Zirl, Tyrol, Austria

Bernhard Winder

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Vascular Surgery, Feldkirch Hospital, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria

Christoph Hochmayr

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Alexander E. Egger

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Central Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics (ZIMCL), University Hospital of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Andrea Griesmacher

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Central Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics (ZIMCL), University Hospital of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Ralf Geiger

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics III, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Elke Griesmaier

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Raimund Pechlaner

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Michael Knoflach

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Knoflach, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VASCage Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Knoflach, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

ursula.kohlendorfer@i-med.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

the Early Vascular Ageing in the YOUth (EVA4YOU) Study Group

A list of additional members of the EVA4YOU study group appears in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.