From the Department of Psychiatry (P.W.H., P.d.J.), University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen; and Department of Medical Psychology (P.d.J.), Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands; and San Francisco VA Medical Center (B.Y.N., M.A.W.); Department of Medicine (R.F.-F., M.A.W.), University of California; Division of Cardiology (R.F.-F.), San Francisco General Hospital; Department of Psychiatry (E.E.), University of California; and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (J.L., E.B.), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Petra W. Hoen, BSc, University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology, CC72, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ, Groningen, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
Received for publication August 16, 2010; revision received March 16, 2011.
P.d.J. was supported by a VIDI Grant from the Dutch Medical Research Council (Grant 016.086.397). The Heart and Soul Study was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs Epidemiology Merit Review Program, the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development service, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (R01 HL079235), the American Federation for Aging Research (Paul Beeson Scholars Program), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program), the Ischemia Research and Education Foundation, and the Nancy Kirwan Heart Research Fund. R.F.-F. is supported by the American Heart Association Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award #0875014N. The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
E.B., J.L., and E.E. will be cofounders of Telome Health, a diagnostics company related to telomere biology, and will own stock in the company. The other authors report no financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.
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