Variability in the incidence of renal replacement therapy over time in Western industrialized countries: A retrospective registry analysis

• Vicky De Meyer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vicky De Meyer, Daniel Abramowicz, Karl Martin Wissing

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vicky.demeyer@uzbrusssel.be

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5408-798X

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• Daniel Abramowicz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vicky De Meyer, Daniel Abramowicz, Karl Martin Wissing

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

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium, Laboratory of Medicine and Pediatrics, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

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• Johan De Meester ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, AZ Nikolaas, Sint Niklaas, Belgium

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• Fréderic Collart ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, CHU Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium

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• Jean-Louis Bosmans ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

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• Wilfried Cools ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Interfaculty Center Data Processing & Statistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-0336

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• Karl Martin Wissing

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vicky De Meyer, Daniel Abramowicz, Karl Martin Wissing

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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