About the Authors
- Dinesh Talwar
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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
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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
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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
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Affiliation Woodlands Family Medical Centre, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom
- Denis O'Reilly
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- George Davey Smith
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Graham Watt
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Affiliation General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Naveed Sattar
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* E-mail: 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.