About the Authors

Eiichiro Kanda

Contributed equally to this work with: Eiichiro Kanda, Masumi Ai, Mitsuyo Okazaki, Masayuki Yoshida, Yoshitaka Maeda

tokyo.kyosai.kanda@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Tokyo Kyosai Hospital, Meguroku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Life Science and Bioethics, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan

Masumi Ai

Contributed equally to this work with: Eiichiro Kanda, Masumi Ai, Mitsuyo Okazaki, Masayuki Yoshida, Yoshitaka Maeda

Affiliation Department of Insured Medical Care Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuyo Okazaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Eiichiro Kanda, Masumi Ai, Mitsuyo Okazaki, Masayuki Yoshida, Yoshitaka Maeda

Affiliation Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Yoshida

Contributed equally to this work with: Eiichiro Kanda, Masumi Ai, Mitsuyo Okazaki, Masayuki Yoshida, Yoshitaka Maeda

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Bioethics, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshitaka Maeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Eiichiro Kanda, Masumi Ai, Mitsuyo Okazaki, Masayuki Yoshida, Yoshitaka Maeda

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, JA Toride Medical Center, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EK YM. Data curation: EK MA. Formal analysis: EK MA. Funding acquisition: EK YM. Investigation: EK YM. Methodology: EK MA MO MY. Project administration: EK MA YM. Resources: EK MO MY. Software: EK MO. Supervision: MY YM. Validation: MA MO MY. Visualization: EK MA. Writing – original draft: EK. Writing – review & editing: EK MA MO MY YM.