aDepartment of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
bDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
cDivision of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
dLaboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
eDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
fNational Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
gDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Correspondence to Richard D. Semba, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Smith Building M015, 400N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Tel: +1 410 955 3572; fax: +1 410 512 1753; e-mail: rdsemba@jhmi.edu
Abbreviations: AGE, advanced glycation end products; aPWV, aortic pulse wave velocity; CML, carboxymethyl-lysine; CRP, C-reactive protein; eGRF, estimated glomerular filtration rate; IL-6, interleukin 6; PP, pulse pressure
Received 29 July, 2014
Revised 15 October, 2014
Accepted 16 October, 2014
