About the Authors

Stephen M. S. Ting

stephen_ting@yahoo.com (ST); d.zehnder@warwick.ac.uk (DZ)

Affiliations Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom, Division of Metabolic and Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Hasan Iqbal

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom

Thomas Hamborg

Affiliation Division of Health Sciences Statistics and Epidemiology, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Chris H. E. Imray

Affiliations Department of Vascular and Renal Transplantation Surgery, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom, Division of Metabolic and Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Susan Hewins

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom

Prithwish Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom

Rosemary Bland

Affiliation Division of Metabolic and Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Robert Higgins

Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom

Daniel Zehnder

stephen_ting@yahoo.com (ST); d.zehnder@warwick.ac.uk (DZ)

Affiliations Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom, Division of Metabolic and Vascular Health, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZ ST RH CI PB. Performed the experiments: ST DZ HI SH. Analyzed the data: ST TH DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST TH DZ. Wrote the paper: ST DZ TH RH RB.