About the Authors

Ayu Ogawa-Akiyama

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

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Hitoshi Sugiyama

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

hitoshis@okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Human Resource Development of Dialysis Therapy for Kidney Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Masashi Kitagawa

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Keiko Tanaka

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan, Department of Molecular Life Sciences, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuzuki Kano

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Koki Mise

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Nozomu Otaka

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Human Resource Development of Dialysis Therapy for Kidney Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Katsuyuki Tanabe

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Hiroshi Morinaga

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Medical Informatics, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Masaru Kinomura

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Haruhito A. Uchida

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Jun Wada

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Jun Wada receives speaker honoraria from Astellas, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, Novartis, and Tanabe Mitsubishi, and receives grant support from Astellas, Bayer, Baxter, Chugai, Daiichi Sankyo, Kissei, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, MSD, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Ono, Otsuka, Pfizer, Teijin, Torii, and Takeda. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.