*Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;
†Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care, Jesse Brown VAMC and Edward Hines VA, Chicago, Illinois;
‡Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, California;
§Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
‖National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;
¶Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
**Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
††Department of Medicine, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio;
‡‡Department of Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and
§§Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, California
Correspondence: Dr. James P. Lash, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Medicine/Section of Nephrology (MC 793), 820 South Wood Street, Room 416W, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7315. Phone: 312-996-6736; Fax: 312-996-7378; E-mail: [email protected]
Received December 22, 2010
Accepted May 4, 2011
