Jessica M. B. Rees: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draft
Angela M. Wood: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Frank Dudbridge: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Stephen Burgess:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5365-8760
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draft
N. Charlotte Onland-Moret: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
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Title:
PLoS ONE
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Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date Collection: 2019
Publication date
(Electronic):
23
September
2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 9
Electronic Location Identifier: e0222362
Affiliations
[1
]
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University
of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
[2
]
Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and
Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX, United Kingdom
[3
]
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United
Kingdom
[4
]
MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, United Kingdom
Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
Author notes
Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following
competing interests: Stephen Burgess is a paid statistical reviewer for PLOS Medicine.
This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222362
PMC ID: 6756542
PubMed ID: 31545794
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Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440, Wellcome Trust;
Award ID: 204623/Z/16/Z
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5365-8760
Stephen Burgess
Stephen Burgess is supported by Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome
Trust and the Royal Society (Grant Number 204623/Z/16/Z).
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