Chadban, Steven
Esposito, Ciro
Correa-Rotter, Ricardo
Wu, Mai-Szu
Reichel, Helmut
Elsayed, Hesham M.
Garcia Sanchez, Juan Jose https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6546-7769
Pentakota, Surendra
Kularatne, Thames
Fifer, Simon
Hull, Richard
Funding for this research was provided by:
AstraZeneca
Article History
Received: 3 September 2025
Accepted: 26 November 2025
First Online: 24 December 2025
Declarations
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: Steven Chadban has received payment/honoraria from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Bayer for speaker fees and advisory boards. Ciro Esposito has received payment/honoraria from AstraZeneca, Otsuka, Travere Therapeutics and Vifor Fresenius for speaker fees and advisory board. Ricardo Correa-Rotter has received honoraria as consultant from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Chinook, AbbVie, Novo Nordisk and Lilly, and research support from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche, Lilly, Chinook and Novo Nordisk. He has received honoraria/speaking fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novo Nordisk and Amgen. Mai-Szu Wu has received support from AstraZeneca for their contributions to this work, and payment/honoraria for lectures, presentations, and manuscript writing. He has received payment/honoraria from Baxter, Bayer, GSK, Novartis, Pfizer and Sanofi for lectures and presentations, and honoraria for advisory board participation from AstraZeneca, Bayer, GSK, Novartis and Sanofi. Helmut Reichel declares that he has no competing interests. Heschem M. Elsayed has received payment/honoraria from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, and GSK for symposia and is Emeritus Professor of Nephrology, ESNT President Elect, and Academic Director of RRT WKA Fellowship. Juan Jose Garcia Sanchez and Surendra Pentakota are employees of AstraZeneca. Thames Kularatne and Simon Fifer are employees of CaPPRe PTY Ltd. which received fees from AstraZeneca to conduct this study. CaPPRe has consulted to AbbVie, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, CSL Behring, Edwards LifeSciences, Gilead, GSK, Ipsen, Janssen, Medtronic, Novo Nordisk, Roche, Sanofi, Seqirus, Shire, UCB, and Vertex outside of the submitted work. Richard Hull has received speaking fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer and Thornton Ross Stada Group, and honoraria for advisory board participation from Novartis, Travere Therapeutics and Vifor Fresenius.
: This study was reviewed by an international Institutional Review Board, Pearl IRB, and was granted an exemption from a full review due to its low/negligible risk nature in accordance with FDA 21 56.104 and 45CFR46.104 (Protocol #21-CAPP-102). All participants provided electronic informed consent.