2Medical Scientific Office, Diaverum Renal Services Group, Lund, Sweden;
1Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, Australia;
3Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand;
5Freelance Consultant (formerly Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, S Maria Imbaro, Chieti, Italy;
6Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Pescara, Italy;
7Department of Hydration and Health, Danone Research, Palaiseau, France;
8College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Health Sciences Building, Adelaide 5001, South Australia;
9Worldwide Medical, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
10Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Azienda Ospedaliera Instituti Ospedalieri di Cremona, Cremona, Italy;
11Department of Endocrinology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Foggia, Foggia, Italy;
12Department of Medicine, Ospedale Civile S. Pellegrino, Trani, Italy;
13Department of Clinical Sciences, Azienda Policlinico Umberto I—Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy;
14Department of Medical Sciences, Scientific Institute Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy;
15Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy;
16Division of Nephrology, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy; Departments of
4Emergency and Organ Transplantation and
17Internal Medicine, University of Bari, Bari, Italy;
18Department of Nephrology, University of Queensland at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia;
19Research Office of the Vice-President, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; and
20Diaverum Academy, Bari, Italy
Correspondence: Prof. Giovanni F.M. Strippoli, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Piazza Giulio Cesare, 70124 Bari, Italy. Email: [email protected]