1. Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
2. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
3. Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
4. Department of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
5. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
6. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of San Francisco, CA, USA
7. Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
8. University Cardiology Unit, Cardiothoracic Department, University Policlinic Hospital, Bari, Italy
9. Institute of Health and Society, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium
10. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Leuven, Belgium
11. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
12. Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
13. Department of Endocrinology, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
14. Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
15. Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
16. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
17. National Council Research Institute of Clinical Physiology, Tuscany Region G. Monasterio Foundation, Pisa, Italy
18. National Council Research Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy
19. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Geriatric Endocrine Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
20. National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
21. Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
22. School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
23. Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
24. Department of Internal Medicine, Rotterdam Thyroid Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
25. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
26. Institute for Community Medicine, SHIP/Clinical-Epidemiological Research & German Centre of Cardiovascular Research, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
27. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia
28. Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia
29. School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia
30. Division of Endocrinology, Faculdade de Medicina de Marília, Marília, Brazil
31. Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
32. Department of Clinical Studies, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
33. Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
34. Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
35. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
36. Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands