About the Authors
- Ayu Ogawa-Akiyama
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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
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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
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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
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Roles Methodology
Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Koki Mise
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Roles Methodology
Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Nozomu Otaka
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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
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Roles Methodology
Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Hiroshi Morinaga
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Roles Formal analysis
Affiliation Division of Medical Informatics, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan
- Masaru Kinomura
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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
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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
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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.