Popp, Bernt https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3679-1081
Ekici, Arif B. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6099-7066
Knaup, Karl X.
Schneider, Karen
Uebe, Steffen
Park, Jonghun
Bafna, Vineet
Meiselbach, Heike https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5163-8264
Eckardt, Kai-Uwe
Schiffer, Mario
Reis, André https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6301-6363
Kraus, Cornelia
Wiesener, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4992-3132
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (PO2366/2–1, 387509280, SFB 1350, TP C4)
Article History
Received: 3 March 2022
Revised: 14 July 2022
Accepted: 15 August 2022
First Online: 13 September 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study adheres to the principles set out in the Declaration of Helsinki. The probands included in our study were filtered using the database of the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) cohort which enrolled 5217 exclusively Caucasian individuals. The GCKD study is registered as a national clinical study (DRKS 00003971) and was approved by local ethics review boards of all participating institutions.