About the Authors
- Tadashi Toyama
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Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Kengo Furuichi
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
- Miho Shimizu
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
- Akinori Hara
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
- Yasunori Iwata
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
- Norihiko Sakai
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
- Vlado Perkovic
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Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Makoto Kobayashi
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Affiliations Tama Graduate School of Management and Information Science, Tokyo, Japan, CRECON Research and Consulting Inc., Tokyo, Japan
- Toshiki Mano
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Affiliation Tama Graduate School of Management and Information Science, Tokyo, Japan
- Shuichi Kaneko
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Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Homeostasis, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
- Takashi Wada
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* E-mail: twada@m-kanazawa.jp
Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
Competing Interests
One or more of the authors are employed by a commercial company, "CRECON Research and Consulting Inc.” This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TT KF MS VP SK TW. Performed the experiments: TT KF MS TW. Analyzed the data: TT KF MS TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK TM. Wrote the paper: TT KF MS AH YI NS TM SK TW.