About the Authors

Alexander Ritter

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

harald.seeger@usz.ch (HS); alexander.ritter@usz.ch (AR)

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, HOCH Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Maximilian Sabev

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Olivier Bonny

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Service of Nephrology, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Gregoire Wuerzner

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Service of Nephrology, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Thomas Ernandez

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Transplantation, University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Florian Buchkremer

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Stephan Segerer

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Daniel G. Fuster

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Beat Roth

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Nilufar Mohebbi

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Lena Jellestad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Consultation—Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Andreas M. Hoetker

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Carsten A. Wagner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Harald Seeger

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

harald.seeger@usz.ch (HS); alexander.ritter@usz.ch (AR)

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute for Nephrology and Dialysis, Cantonal Hospital Baden, Baden, Switzerland

Competing Interests

AR received speaker fees from Alnylam, CSL Vifor, Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca and Forum für medizinische Fortbildung (FOMF) and support for travel expenses and attending meetings by Astellas, Boehringer Ingelheim and Salmon Pharma outside this work. CAW has received speaker’s honoraria from Kyowa Kirin. STS received travel and/or speaker fees from Forum für medizinische Fortbildung (FOMF), Fresenius and Baxter and was supported by a grant of the Fundação Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Humanitario. STS holds shares of Sandoz, Novartis and Calciscon. DGF served as a consultant for Otsuka, Alnylam, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi and Kyowa Kirin, and received unrestricted research grants from Otsuka, Boehringer Ingelheim and CSL Vifor. NM has received speaker fees from Forum für medizinische Fortbildung (FOMF), Boehringer Ingelheim and AstraZeneca. OB received speaker fees from Otsuka, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Vifor, Fresenius, Forum für medizinische Fortbildung (FOMF) and support for travel expenses from CSL Vifor and Menarini Foundation outside this work. HS received speaker and consulting fees from CSL Vifor, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Baxter, AstraZeneca, GSK, Salmon Pharma, Forum für medizinische Fortbildung (FOMF) and support for travel expenses and attending meetings by Alexion, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.