*Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;
†Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California;
Departments of ‡Medicine,
§Epidemiology, and
‖Biostatistics and
††Division of Nephrology, University of California, San Francisco, California;
¶Kidney Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;
**Joslin Diabetes Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;
‡‡Department of Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California;
§§Division of Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois;
‖‖Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and
¶¶Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Correspondence: Dr. Kunihiro Matsushita, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205. Email: [email protected]
Received February 13, 2014
Accepted June 05, 2014
