About the Authors

Michael Ke Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Ke Wang, Christine White

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Christine White

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Ke Wang, Christine White

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, Canada

Ayub Akbari

aakbari@ottawahospital.on.ca

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Pierre Brown

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Naser Hussain

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Mubarak AlKabeer Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Swapnil Hiremath

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Greg Knoll

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Kidney Research Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AA CW GK. Data curation: AA CW GK. Formal analysis: AA MW. Funding acquisition: CW GK AA. Investigation: AA CW GK NH. Methodology: AA MW CW GK PB. Project administration: AA. Software: AA MW. Supervision: AA GK. Visualization: AA MW. Writing – original draft: MW AA CW. Writing – review & editing: AA MW CW PB NH SH GK.