About the Authors

Barbara Dołęgowska

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Dołęgowska, Wojciech Błogowski

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Diagnostics and Molecular Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Wojciech Błogowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Dołęgowska, Wojciech Błogowski

drannab@wp.pl

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Diagnostics and Molecular Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Leszek Domański

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Transplantation and Internal Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD LD. Performed the experiments: BD. Analyzed the data: WB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BD LD. Wrote the paper: WB. Study concept, performed biochemical analyses: BD. Statistical analysis, wrote the manuscript, revised the manuscript: WB. Clinical aspects of the study: LD.