About the Authors

Mark A. Supiano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mark.supiano@utah.edu

Affiliation Geriatrics Division University of Utah School of Medicine and VA Salt Lake City Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Laura Lovato

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Walter T. Ambrosius

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeffrey Bates

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Srinivasan Beddhu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nephrology Division University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Paul Drawz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Renal Diseases & Hypertension, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jamie P. Dwyer

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology/Hypertension, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Naomi M. Hamburg

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Vascular Biology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dalane Kitzman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sections on Cardiovascular Medicine and Geriatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

James Lash

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Nephrology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eva Lustigova

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Cynthia M. Miracle

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California San Diego and VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Suzanne Oparil

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dominic S. Raj

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Daniel E. Weiner

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Addison Taylor

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph A. Vita

† Deceased.

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Section of Vascular Biology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Reem Yunis

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Glenn M. Chertow

Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Michel Chonchol

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

Suzanne Oparil has received research grant support or support/reimbursement for travel to meetings or other, non-financial support from: Actelion Clinical Research/George Clinical; AstraZeneca AB; Bayer; Lundbeck; Novartis; Novo Nordisk; ROX Medical; and has consulted for: Actelion/George Clinical, Lundbeck and Novo Nordisk. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.