About the Authors

Haruhisa Miyazawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Susumu Ookawara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

su-ooka@hb.tp1.jp

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Kiyonori Ito

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Yuichiro Ueda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Katsunori Yanai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Hiroki Ishii

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Yuko Mutsuyoshi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Taisuke Kitano

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Mitsutoshi Shindo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Akinori Aomatsu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Keiji Hirai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Taro Hoshino

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, First Department of Integrated Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.