About the Authors

Mika Baba

Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, St. Luke’s Affiliated Clinic, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan

Takuro Shimbo

Affiliation Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Japan

Masaru Horio

Affiliation Department of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Masahiko Ando

Affiliation Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Yoshinari Yasuda

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Yasuhiro Komatsu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan

Katsunori Masuda

Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, St. Luke’s Affiliated Clinic, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan

Seiichi Matsuo

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Shoichi Maruyama

marus@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB TS YY YK S. Mar. Analyzed the data: MB TS MH S. Mar. Wrote the paper: MB TS MA YY YK KM S. Mat S. Mar.