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Article History

Received: 3 February 2017

Accepted: 6 July 2017

First Online: 15 August 2017

Data availability

: The Boston University Medical Campus IRB has determined that we may not post individual data to a public repository because the IRB judged that the informed consent provided by study participants is incompatible with such posting. However, the IRB has determined that we can share de-identified data with outside investigators under the following conditions: (1) personal identifiers are removed from all data items and (2) a BWHS investigator is involved in review, interpretation and publication of results of the analysed data. See ExternalRef removed for information about the procedure for data request.

: This work was supported by grants R01 MD007015 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health), R01 CA058420 and UM1 CA164974 from the National Cancer Institute and 11SDG7390014 from the American Heart Association. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of any of the funding agencies.

: The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.

: All authors made substantial contributions to one or more of the following: the study conception and design, acquisition of data and analysis and interpretation of the data. All authors contributed to drafting and/or revising the article critically for important intellectual content and all authors provided their final approval of the version to be published. EARN is the guarantor of this work.

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