About the Authors

Sho Sasaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Sho Sasaki, Yoshihiko Raita

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ssasakih4@aih-net.com

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan, Clinical Research Support Office, Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshihiko Raita

Contributed equally to this work with: Sho Sasaki, Yoshihiko Raita

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital, Naha, Japan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Minoru Murakami

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Saku Central Hospital, Nagano, Japan

Shungo Yamamoto

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Infectious Disease, Kyoto City Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Kentaro Tochitani

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Infectious Disease, Kyoto City Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Takeshi Hasegawa

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Office for Promoting Medical Research, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

Kiichiro Fujisaki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Shunichi Fukuhara

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan, Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests