Laster, Marciana
Soohoo, Melissa
Hall, Clinton
Streja, Elani
Rhee, Connie M.
Ravel, Vanessa A.
Reddy, Uttam
Norris, Keith C.
Salusky, Isidro B.
Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01-DK95668, K24-DK091419, R01-DK078106, K23-DK102903, T32-DK104687)
Article History
Received: 6 July 2016
Revised: 5 September 2016
Accepted: 25 September 2016
First Online: 29 October 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Committees of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, University of California Irvine, and University of Washington. Given the anonymity of the patients studied and non-intrusive nature of the research, the study was exempt from the requirement for consent.
: The work in this manuscript has been performed with the support of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease of the National Institute of Health research grants R01-DK95668 (KKZ), K24-DK091419 (KKZ), R01-DK078106 (KKZ), and T32-DK104687 (ML). KKZ is supported by philanthropic grants from Mr Harold Simmons, Mr Louis Chang, Mr Joseph Lee and AVEO. CMR is supported by the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease of the National Institute of Health grant K23-DK102903.
: KKZ has received honoraria and/or support from Abbott, Abbvie, Alexion, Amgen, American Society of Nephrology, Astra-Zeneca, AVEO, Chugai, DaVita, Fresenius, Genetech, Haymarket Media, Hospira, Kabi, Keryx, National Institutes of Health, National Kidney Foundation, Relypsa, Resverlogix, Sanofi, Shire, Vifor, and ZS-Pharma.