Associations of employment status and educational levels with mortality and hospitalization in the dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study in Japan

• Yasuo Imanishi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuo Imanishi, Shingo Fukuma

  * E-mail: imanishi@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9077-2631

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• Shingo Fukuma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuo Imanishi, Shingo Fukuma

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Angelo Karaboyas,

  Affiliation Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Bruce M. Robinson,

  Affiliations Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Ronald L. Pisoni,

  Affiliation Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Takanobu Nomura,

  Affiliation Medical Affairs, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Akiba,

  Affiliation Department of Blood Purification and Internal Medicine, Kidney Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tadao Akizawa,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kiyoshi Kurokawa,

  Affiliation National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akira Saito,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Dialysis Center, Shonantobu General Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Shunichi Fukuhara,

  Affiliations Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

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• Masaaki Inaba

  Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Molecular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

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