Hyperleptinemia positively associated with central arterial stiffness in hemodialysis patients

• Chiu-Huang Kuo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9239-6932

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• Yu-Li Lin,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

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• Chung-Jen Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology, Hualien, Taiwan

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• Chih-Hsien Wang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

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• Yu-Hsien Lai,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

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• Hung-Hsiang Liou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Hsiang Liou, Bang-Gee Hsu

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gee.lily@msa.hinet.net (BGH); hh258527@ms23.hinet.net (HHL)

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Hsin-Jen Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Bang-Gee Hsu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Hsiang Liou, Bang-Gee Hsu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gee.lily@msa.hinet.net (BGH); hh258527@ms23.hinet.net (HHL)

  Current address: Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

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