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"Conflict of interest MC is an employee of and holds stocks in LabCorp. JO is a consultant, stockholder, and former employee of LabCorp. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest"

"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.The investigators were supported by the Intramural Research program of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (ZIAHL006278). This study also used in part the resources from the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) medical records-linkage system, which is supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA; AG 058738), by the Mayo Clinic Research Committee, and by fees paid annually by REP users. The funding institution did not play a role design, conduct, analysis, or reporting nor in the decision to submit this manuscript for publication."