About the Authors

Dinesh Talwar

Contributed equally to this work with: Dinesh Talwar, Alex McConnachie, Paul Welsh

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Alex McConnachie

Contributed equally to this work with: Dinesh Talwar, Alex McConnachie, Paul Welsh

Affiliation Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Paul Welsh

Contributed equally to this work with: Dinesh Talwar, Alex McConnachie, Paul Welsh

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Mark Upton

Affiliation Woodlands Family Medical Centre, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

Denis O'Reilly

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom

George Davey Smith

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Graham Watt

Affiliation General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Naveed Sattar

nsattar@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DT AM PW MU DO GDS GW NS. Performed the experiments: DT. Analyzed the data: AM PW GDS GW NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT DO GW. Wrote the paper: DT AM PW MU DO GDS GW NS.