Lower levels of proteinuria are associated with elevated mortality in incident dialysis patients

• Manabu Hishida ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manabu Hishida, Kunihiro Matsushita

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6068-8228

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• Tariq Shafi ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Division of Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States of America

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Lawrence J. Appel ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Shoichi Maruyama ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

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• Daijo Inaguma ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: daijo@fujita-hu.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University Hospital, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

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• Kunihiro Matsushita

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manabu Hishida, Kunihiro Matsushita

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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