About the Authors

Adrien Flahault

Affiliations Service de néphrologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France, College de France, Laboratory of Central Neuropeptides in the Regulation of Body Fluid Homeostasis and Cardiovascular Functions, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB), INSERM U1050, Paris, France

Marie Metzger

Affiliation INSERM UMRS-1018, CESP Team 5 (Renal and Cardiovascular Epidemiology), Villejuif, France

Jean-François Chassé

Affiliations Paris Descartes University, Paris, France, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, Clinical chemistry, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France

Jean-Philippe Haymann

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie, INSERM U702, Paris, France, Hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles, Paris, France

Jean-Jacques Boffa

Affiliation Hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, Service de Néphrologie, Paris, France

Martin Flamant

Affiliation Hôpital Bichat, AP-HP, Service de Physiologie, Paris, France

François Vrtovsnik

Affiliation Hôpital Bichat, AP-HP, Service de Néphrologie, Paris, France

Pascal Houillier

Affiliation Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles, Paris, France

Bénédicte Stengel

Affiliation INSERM UMRS-1018, CESP Team 5 (Renal and Cardiovascular Epidemiology), Villejuif, France

Eric Thervet

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Thervet, Nicolas Pallet

Affiliations Service de néphrologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Nicolas Pallet

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Thervet, Nicolas Pallet

npallet@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Paris Descartes University, Paris, France, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, Clinical chemistry, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France

NephroTest study group

Membership of the NephroTest study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF MM BS NP ET. Performed the experiments: AF MM JFC JPH JJB MF FV PH BS ET NP. Analyzed the data: AF MM BS ET NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF MM BS ET NP. Wrote the paper: AF MM BS ET NP JPH.