The higher mortality associated with low serum albumin is dependent on systemic inflammation in end-stage kidney disease

• Filipa Caeiro Alves,

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

  Affiliations Hospital Espírito Santo, Évora, Portugal, Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6024-9172

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• Jia Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Abdul Rashid Qureshi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Lu Dai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Sunna Snaedal,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland

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• Peter Bárány,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Olof Heimbürger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Bengt Lindholm,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Peter Stenvinkel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peter.stenvinkel@ki.se

  Affiliation Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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