About the Authors

Rupert W. Major

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rwlm2@le.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom, Kettering General Hospital, Kettering, United Kingdom

David Shepherd

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

James F. Medcalf

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom

Gang Xu

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Laura J. Gray

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Nigel J. Brunskill

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Data from the Nene Clinical Commissioning Group, Northamptonshire, are currently used by the CKD Prognosis Consortium (CKD-PC) for ongoing analysis. At the time of the development of KFRE by CKD-PC the authors were not working in collaboration with CKD-PC. No member of the CKD-PC was involved in the development, analysis or drafting of the current manuscript. The authors declare that there are no other relevant competing interests exist.