Jing, Jiaojiao
Ekici, Arif B. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6099-7066
Sitter, Thomas
Eckardt, Kai-Uwe
Schaeffner, Elke
Li, Yong
Kronenberg, Florian http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2229-1120
Köttgen, Anna http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4671-3714
Schultheiss, Ulla T. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-5310
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chinese Scholarship Council
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (NAKSYS)
Article History
Received: 11 December 2017
Accepted: 14 August 2018
First Online: 4 September 2018
Competing Interests
: J.J., A.B.E., T.S., K.-U.E., E.S., Y.L., F.K., and U.T.S. declare no competing financial interests. A.K. received research support from Astra Zeneca, Aries and Grünenthal. E.S. declares as non-financial interest the membership of the extended board of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN); J.J., A.B.E., T.S., K.-U.E., Y.L., F.K., A.K., U.T.S. declare no competing non-financial interests. The results presented in this paper have not been published previously in whole or part, except in abstract format.