*Division of Nephrology (Department of Medicine) and Division of Preventive Medicine (Department of Family and Preventive Medicine), University of California, San Diego, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California;
†Section of Nephrology (Department of Medicine), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
‡Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California; and
§Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
D.E.R. and S.G.C. contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence: Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 West Carson Street, C1-Annex, Torrance, CA 90509-2910. Email: [email protected]