About the Authors

Jae Yoon Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Jae Yoon Park, Myoung-Hee Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Myoung-Hee Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Jae Yoon Park, Myoung-Hee Kim

Affiliation Department of Dental Hygiene, College of Health Science, Eulji University, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Seung Seok Han

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Hyunjeong Cho

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Ho Kim

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Dong-Ryeol Ryu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Ewha Medical Research Institute, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Hyunwook Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University College of Medicine Sanbon Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Hajeong Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jung Pyo Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Chun-Soo Lim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Kyoung Hoon Kim

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Kwon Wook Joo

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yon Su Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Dong Ki Kim

dkkim73@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease (CRC for ESRD) Investigators

Membership of the Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease (CRC for ESRD) Investigators is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DKK. Performed the experiments: MK Ho Kim. Analyzed the data: MK Ho Kim JYP DKK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSH DRR Hyunwook Kim HL JPL HC KHK CSL KWJ YSK. Wrote the paper: JYP DKK.