About the Authors

Julie K. K. Vishram

julievishram@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark, Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark

Anders Borglykke

Affiliation Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark

Anne H. Andreasen

Affiliation Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark

Jørgen Jeppesen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark

Hans Ibsen

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Holbæk University Hospital, Holbæk, Denmark

Torben Jørgensen

Affiliation Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark

Luigi Palmieri

Affiliation Cerebro and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, National Centre of Epidemiology Surveillance and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Simona Giampaoli

Affiliation Cerebro and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, National Centre of Epidemiology Surveillance and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Chiara Donfrancesco

Affiliation Cerebro and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, National Centre of Epidemiology Surveillance and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

Frank Kee

Affiliation UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research (NI), The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Giuseppe Mancia

Affiliation Clinica Medica e Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Monza, Milano, Italy

Giancarlo Cesana

Affiliation Research Centre on Public Health, University of Milano Bicocca, Monza, Italy

Kari Kuulasmaa

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland

Veikko Salomaa

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland

Susana Sans

Affiliation Department of Health, Barcelona, Spain

Jean Ferrieres

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Toulouse University School of Medicine, Rangueil Hospital, Toulouse, France

Jean Dallongeville

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

Stefan Söderberg

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Cardiology and Heart Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Dominique Arveiler

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg, France

Aline Wagner

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg, France

Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe

Affiliation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, United Kingdom

Wojciech Drygas

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, CVD Prevention and Health Promotion, National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland

Michael H. Olsen

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Center of Individualized Medicine in Arterial Diseases (CIMA), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, and Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

on behalf of the MORGAM Project

Membership of the MORGAM Project is provided in Text S1.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKV AB AHA JJ HI TJ LP SG CD FK GM GC KK VS S. Sans JF JD S. Söderberg DA AW HT WD MHO. Performed the experiments: JKV AB AHA JJ HI TJ LP SG CD FK GM GC KK VS S. Sans JF JD S. Söderberg DA AW HT WD MHO. Analyzed the data: JV MHO AB AHA KK JJ TJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKV AB AHA JJ HI TJ LP SG CD FK GM GC KK VS S. Sans JF JD S. Söderberg DA AW HT WD MHO. Wrote the paper: JKV MHO. Author contributions to manuscript revision: JKV AB AHA JJ HI TJ LP SG CD FK GM GC KK VS S. Sans JF JD S. Söderberg DA AW HT WD MHO.