About the Authors

Cristian Rodelo-Haad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Maria E. Rodríguez-Ortiz

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Alejandro Martin-Malo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amartinma@senefro.org

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

M. Victoria Pendon-Ruiz de Mier

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

M. Luisa Agüera

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Juan R. Muñoz-Castañeda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Sagrario Soriano

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Francisco Caravaca

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nephrology Service, Infanta Cristina Hospital, Badajoz, Spain

M. Antonia Alvarez-Lara

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Arnold Felsenfeld

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wadsworth VA, UCLA, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Pedro Aljama

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Mariano Rodriguez

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Nephrology Service, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain, RETICs-REDinREN (National Institute of Health Carlos III), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

MAAL has received lecture fees from Fresenius Medical Care and AMGEN. M.R. has received research grants from Amgen and Fresenius Medical Care and lecture fees from the following companies: Amgen, Abbott, Shire, and Fresenius Medical Care. AMM has received lecture fees from Fresenius Medical Care and Bellco in the last two years. All the other authors declare no conflict of interest to disclose. The companies pointed in the financial disclosures had no role in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data nor preparation of the manuscript. The results presented in this paper have not been published previously in whole or part, except in abstract format. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials