About the Authors
- Mika Baba
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Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, St. Luke’s Affiliated Clinic, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan
- Takuro Shimbo
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Affiliation Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Japan
- Masaru Horio
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Affiliation Department of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Masahiko Ando
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Affiliation Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
- Yoshinari Yasuda
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Yasuhiro Komatsu
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan
- Katsunori Masuda
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Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, St. Luke’s Affiliated Clinic, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan
- Seiichi Matsuo
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Shoichi Maruyama
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* E-mail: 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.