Inoue, Kazunori
Matsui, Isao
Hamano, Takayuki
Okuda, Keiji
Tsukamoto, Yasumasa
Matsumoto, Ayumi
Shimada, Karin
Yasuda, Seiichi
Katsuma, Yusuke
Takabatake, Yoshitsugu
Tanaka, Masaru
Tanaka, Noriko
Mano, Toshiaki
Minamino, Tetsuo
Sakata, Yasushi
Isaka, Yoshitaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (25870408)
The Kidney Foundation, Japan (JKFB 13-36)
Article History
Accepted: 10 November 2020
First Online: 18 November 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The Department of Inter-Organ Communication Research in Kidney Disease, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, received grants from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The other authors have no conflicts of interest.
: This retrospective cohort study was approved by the Ethics Committee (approval number: 2020-02) at Tanaka Kitanoda Hospital (Sakai-ku, Osaka, Japan).
: Patients who did not declare refusal to participation according to opt-out policy were enrolled in this retrospective study.