About the Authors

Lu Dai

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

lu.dai@ki.se

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Longkai Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Helen Erlandsson

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Armand M. G. Jaminon

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Abdul Rashid Qureshi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jonaz Ripsweden

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Division of Medical Imaging and Technology, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Radiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Torkel B. Brismar

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Imaging and Technology, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Radiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Witasp

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Olof Heimbürger

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Hanne Skou Jørgensen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology Immunology and Transplantation, Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Research Group, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Peter Barany

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Bengt Lindholm

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Pieter Evenepoel

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology Immunology and Transplantation, Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Research Group, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Nephrology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Leon J. Schurgers

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Peter Stenvinkel

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

PS is on scientific advisory boards of REATA, Baxter, Astra Zeneca and Vifor and educational advisory boards for Astellas and FMC. BL is employed by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. LS reports non-financial support from Immunodiagnostic systems (IDS), outside the submitted work. PE is on scientific advisory boards of Amgen, Vifor FMC, and Medice. OH has received consultancy fees from Astra Zenea, Vifor, Opterion, and Gilead. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors do not report any conflict of interests.