About the Authors

Charat Thongprayoon

Affiliations Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Wisit Cheungpasitporn

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Zhen Cheng

Affiliations Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Disease, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Qi Qian

qian.qi@mayo.edu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CT WC ZC QQ. Data curation: CT WC ZC QQ. Formal analysis: CT WC QQ. Investigation: CT WC ZC QQ. Methodology: CT WC QQ. Project administration: QQ. Resources: QQ. Software: CT. Supervision: QQ. Validation: CT WC ZC QQ. Visualization: CT WC ZC QQ. Writing – original draft: CT WC QQ. Writing – review & editing: CT WC ZC QQ.