About the Authors

Addy Montes de Oca

Affiliations IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain, Depto. Medicina y Cirugía Animal, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

Fatima Guerrero

Affiliations IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain, Depto. Medicina y Cirugía Animal, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

Julio M. Martinez-Moreno

Affiliation IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain

Juan A. Madueño

Affiliation IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain

Carmen Herencia

Affiliation IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain

Alan Peralta

Affiliation Depto. Medicina y Cirugía Animal, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

Yolanda Almaden

yalmaden.exts@juntadeandalucia.es

Affiliations IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain, Lipid and Atherosclerosis Unit, IMIBIC/Reina Sofia University Hospital/University of Cordoba, and CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Cordoba, Spain

Ignacio Lopez

Affiliation Depto. Medicina y Cirugía Animal, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

Escolastico Aguilera-Tejero

Affiliation Depto. Medicina y Cirugía Animal, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

Kristina Gundlach

Affiliation Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany

Janine Büchel

Affiliation Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany

Mirjam E. Peter

Affiliation Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany

Jutta Passlick-Deetjen

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Duesseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

Mariano Rodriguez

Affiliations IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain, Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain

Juan R. Muñoz-Castañeda

Affiliation IMIBIC, Hospital Univ Reina Sofia, REDInRen, Cordoba, Spain

Competing Interests

Mariano Rodriguez has received honorarium for lectures from Abbott, Amgen, Fresenius, Shire. J.P-D. is a consultant to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH. M.E.P., J.B., and K.G. are employees of Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR AMdO MEP JB JPD YA IL EAT JRMC. Performed the experiments: AMdO FG JMMM CH. Analyzed the data: AMdO FG JAM AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMdO JRMC MR KG JB MEP JPD YA. Wrote the paper: AMdO. Prepared figures: MR AMdO MEP. Edited and revised manuscript: EAT MR JRMC KG JB MEP JPD. Approved final version of manuscript: JRMC MR KG JB JPD EAT.