About the Authors

Stefan Becker

stefan.becker@uk-essen.de

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine I, Marienhospital Herne, University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Herne, Germany, Department of Nephrology, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Andreas Kribben

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Sven Meister

Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, Dortmund, Germany

Clarissa Jonas Diamantidis

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nicole Unger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Marienhospital Herne, University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Herne, Germany

Anna Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

Roche Pharma, Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany (http://www.roche.de/) funded this study. A. Kribben has received funding from Roche Pharma for consultancy. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: SB AK SM CD NU AM. Wrote the paper: SB AK SM CD NU AM.