About the Authors

Mayumi Takahashi-Kobayashi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Medical Resident, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Joichi Usui

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

j-usui@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Shuzo Kaneko

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hitoshi Sugiyama

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Kosaku Nitta

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Wada

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Laboratory Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Eri Muso

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and dialysis, Kitano Hospital, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Arimura

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Kichijoji Asahi Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Hirofumi Makino

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Seiichi Matsuo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kunihiro Yamagata

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.