About the Authors

Atsuyuki Tokuyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsuyuki Tokuyama, Eiichiro Kanda, Seiji Itano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Eiichiro Kanda

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsuyuki Tokuyama, Eiichiro Kanda, Seiji Itano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kms.cds.kanda@gmail.com

Affiliation Medical Science, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Seiji Itano

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsuyuki Tokuyama, Eiichiro Kanda, Seiji Itano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Megumi Kondo

Roles Validation

‡ MK, YW, HK, KK, HN, TS and NK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Yoshihisa Wada

Roles Validation

‡ MK, YW, HK, KK, HN, TS and NK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Hiroyuki Kadoya

Roles Validation

‡ MK, YW, HK, KK, HN, TS and NK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Kengo Kidokoro

Roles Validation

‡ MK, YW, HK, KK, HN, TS and NK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Hajime Nagasu

Roles Validation

‡ MK, YW, HK, KK, HN, TS and NK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Tamaki Sasaki

Roles Validation

‡ MK, YW, HK, KK, HN, TS and NK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Naoki Kashihara

Roles Supervision, Validation

‡ MK, YW, HK, KK, HN, TS and NK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.