About the Authors

Cynthia Cooper Worobey

Affiliation Renal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Naomi D. L. Fisher

Affiliation Endocrine-Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Cox

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John P. Forman

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gary C. Curhan

gcurhan@partners.org

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCW NDF DGC GCC. Performed the experiments: CCW NDF DGC GCC. Analyzed the data: CCW DGC GCC. Wrote the paper: CCW NDF DGC JPF GCC.