About the Authors

Ji-Eun Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Eun Lee, Jeong-Hoon Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Jeong-Hoon Lim

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Eun Lee, Jeong-Hoon Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

Hye Min Jang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea, Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Yon Su Kim

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Shin-Wook Kang

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Chul Woo Yang

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Nam-Ho Kim

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea

Eugene Kwon

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Hyun-Ji Kim

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Jeung-Min Park

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Hee-Yeon Jung

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Ji-Young Choi

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Sun-Hee Park

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Chan-Duck Kim

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Jang-Hee Cho

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ylkim@knu.ac.kr (YK); jh-cho@knu.ac.kr (JC)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

Yong-Lim Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ylkim@knu.ac.kr (YK); jh-cho@knu.ac.kr (JC)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease, Daegu, Korea

for the Clinical Research Center for End Stage Renal Disease 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.