1Department of Research Programs, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, VA
2Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
3Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIA/NIH/IRP, Baltimore, MD
4Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
5Department of Family and Community Medicine (Emeritus), School of Medicine, University of Nevada (Reno), Auburn, CA
6Departments of Preventive Medicine and Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
7Department of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
8Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Address correspondence to: Hind A. Beydoun, PhD, MPH, Department of Research Programs, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, 9300 DeWitt Loop, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 23 July, 2021
Revised 30 September, 2021
Accepted 30 September, 2021
Funding/support: The manuscript was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Maryland. The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201600018C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN268201600002C, HHSN268201600003C, and HHSN268201600004C
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: M.E. has received funding from Boehriinger-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. M.N. receives grant funding from the Merck Foundation for a research study unrelated to the article in question. The other authors have nothing to disclose.
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