About the Authors
- Mark Lambie
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Affiliation Institute of Applied Clinical Research, Keele University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
- James Chess
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Affiliations Institute of Nephrology, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Renal Unit, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, United Kingdom
- Jun-Young Do
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Yeungnam University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea
- Hyunjin Noh
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Affiliation Hyonam Kidney Laboratory, Soon Chun Hyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Hi-Bahl Lee
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Affiliation Hyonam Kidney Laboratory, Soon Chun Hyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Yong-Lim Kim
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Clinical Research Center for ESRD in Korea, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea
- Angela Summers
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Affiliation Manchester Institute of Nephrology and Transplantation, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Paul Ford Williams
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Affiliation Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich, United Kingdom
- Sara Davison
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Marc Dorval
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
- Nick Topley
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nick Topley, Simon John Davies
* E-mail: simondavies1@compuserve.com (SJD); topley@cf.ac.uk (NT)
Affiliation Institute of Nephrology, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Simon John Davies
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nick Topley, Simon John Davies
* E-mail: simondavies1@compuserve.com (SJD); topley@cf.ac.uk (NT)
Affiliation Institute of Applied Clinical Research, Keele University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
- on behalf of Global Fluid Study Investigators
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¶Members of the Global Fluid Study Investigators can be found in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
S. Davison, M. Dorval, P. Williams, H. Noh, H-B. Lee, J-Y. Do, Y-L. Kim and J. Chess have no competing interests to declare. M. Lambie currently receives research funding from Baxter Healthcare. S. J. Davies currently receives research funding and honoraria from Baxter Healthcare and Fresenius AG. N. Topley has in the past received honoraria and speaker fees from Baxter Healthcare and Fresenius AG. For this specific study infrastructure support for the establishment of the GLOBAL fluid study was provided as unrestricted educational grants from Baxter Healthcare Renal Division. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NT SJD. Performed the experiments: NT. Analyzed the data: ML. Wrote the paper: ML SJD NT SD. Collected the data: JC J-YD HN H-BL Y-LK AS PW SD MD ML SJD NT.