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Corresponding Author: Kirsha S. Gordon, M.Phil, MS, VA Connecticut Healthcare Systems, 950 Campbell Ave. Blg. 35A 2nd FL, 11- ACSLG, West Haven, CT 06516, Phone: (203)932-5711 x3541 or x5371, Fax Number: (203) 937-4926, kirsha.gordon2@va.gov. Alternative Author: E Jennifer Edelman, MD Yale School of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520–8088, ejennifer.edelman@yale.edu.
The authors would like to thank Dr. Scott Braithwaite for input on multiple risk behaviors and helpful comments on this paper.
We would also like to acknowledge the Veterans who participate in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) and the study coordinators and staff at each VACS site and at the West Haven Coordinating Center.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
This study was funded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (grant number U10 AA013566, U24 AA020794, and U01 AA020790).
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