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Article History

Received: 20 December 2020

Accepted: 17 February 2021

First Online: 5 March 2021

Declarations

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: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest. Data reported in this paper is available upon request from JD. JD’s department is partner of the H2020 project ENS@T-HT (Grant 633983).

: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Jaap Deinum.

: Hans Groenewoud kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript. One of the authors has significant statistical expertise. No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

: Only if the study is on human subjects: written informed consent was obtained within the Spartacus trial from subjects (patients) in this study. For the control cohort of CT-scans of 20 kidney donation participants our Ethics Committee judged that no detailed review was warranted given the non-intrusive and non-experimental character of the study.

: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained for the original Spartacus study. For the control cohort of CT-scans of 20 kidney donation participants our Ethics Committee judged that no detailed review was warranted given the non-intrusive and non-experimental character of the study.

: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in the Spartacus trial: Dekkers et al. [].

: The original study was prospective. This was a post-hoc analysis. The original study was a randomised controlled trial. This was a post-hoc analysis was a diagnostic study. Multicenter study.