About the Authors

Kyriakos Ioannou

Contributed equally to this work with: Kyriakos Ioannou, Vianda S. Stel

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

Vianda S. Stel

Contributed equally to this work with: Kyriakos Ioannou, Vianda S. Stel

v.s.stel@amc.uva.nl

Affiliation ERA–EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Evangelia Dounousi

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Kitty J. Jager

Affiliation ERA–EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Aikaterini Papagianni

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Konstantinos Pappas

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Kostas C. Siamopoulos

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Carmine Zoccali

Affiliation CNR–IBIM Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Renal and Transplantation Unit, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Dimitrios Tsakiris

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Papageorgiou General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KI VS AP KP KS KJ DT. Performed the experiments: KI AP KP KS ED DT. Analyzed the data: VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KI AP KP KS ED DT. Wrote the paper: KI VS ED KJ AP KP KS CZ DT.