Luo, Jiacong
Lee, Andrew
Cohen, Dena E.
Colson, Carey
Brunelli, Steven M.
Article History
Received: 9 October 2017
Accepted: 4 February 2018
First Online: 7 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This work was supported by DaVita, Inc. All of the authors are current or former employees of DaVita Clinical Research. SMB’s spouse is an employee of AstraZeneca.
: This retrospective study was conducted using deidentified patient data. As such, it was deemed exempt from institutional review board or ethics committee approval. No research involving animals was performed.
: Because the study was conducted using deidentified patient data, informed consent was not required. We adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki.