Angiotensin receptor blockers are associated with lower mortality than ACE inhibitors in predialytic stage 5 chronic kidney disease: A nationwide study of therapy with renin-angiotensin system blockade

• Chih-Ching Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Ching Lin, Yu-Te Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2338-3561

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• Yu-Te Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Ching Lin, Yu-Te Wu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Sungho Clinic, Ho-Ho-Ho Health Manage System, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Wu-Chang Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Landseed Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Min-Juei Tsai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chang-Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan

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• Jia-Sin Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

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• Chi-Yu Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Szu-Yuan Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shuo-Ming Ou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Der-Cherng Tarng ,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dctarng@vghtpe.gov.tw (DCT); cch@nhri.org.tw (CCH)

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chih-Cheng Hsu

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dctarng@vghtpe.gov.tw (DCT); cch@nhri.org.tw (CCH)

  Affiliations Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan, Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Family Medicine, Min-Sheng General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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