Authors and Disclosures
Masayuki Yamanouchi1–4, Kengo Furuichi5, Miho Shimizu3, Tadashi Toyama3, Yuta Yamamura3, Megumi Oshima3, Shinji Kitajima3, Akinori Hara3, Yasunori Iwata3,6, Norihiko Sakai3, Yuki Oba2, Shusaku Matsuoka2, Daisuke Ikuma2, Hiroki Mizuno2, Tatsuya Suwabe1,2, Junichi Hoshino1,2, Naoki Sawa1,2, Yukio Yuzawa7, Hiroshi Kitamura8, Yoshiki Suzuki9, Hiroshi Sato10, Noriko Uesugi11, Yoshihiko Ueda12, Shinichi Nishi13, Hitoshi Yokoyama5, Tomoya Nishino14, Kenichi Samejima15, Kentaro Kohagura16, Yugo Shibagaki17, Hirofumi Makino18, Seiichi Matsuo19, Yoshifumi Ubara1,2 and Takashi Wada3, on behalf of the Research Group of Diabetic Nephropathy, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
1Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, 2Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Kanagawa, Japan, 3Department of Nephrology and Laboratory Medicine, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan, 4Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Tokyo, Japan, 5Department of Nephrology, Kanazawa Medical University School of Medicine, Ishikawa, Japan, 6Division of Infection Control, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan, 7Department of Nephrology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan, 8Department of Pathology, National Hospital Organization Chibahigashi National Hospital, Chiba, Japan, 9Health Administration Center, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, 10Department of Internal Medicine, JR Sendai Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, 11Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, 12Department of Pathology, Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan, 13Division of Nephrology and Kidney Center, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan, 14Department of Nephrology, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan, 15Department of Nephrology, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan, 16Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nephrology and Neurology, University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine, Okinawa, Japan, 17Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, St Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan, 18Okayama University, Okayama, Japan and 19Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Correspondence to
Masayuki Yamanouchi; E-mail: m.yamanouchi@toranomon.gr.jp and Takashi Wada; E-mail: twada@m-kanazawa.jp
Authors' Contributions
M.Y., K.F., J.H. and T.W. designed the study protocol, researched data, contributed to the discussion, wrote the manuscript and reviewed and edited the manuscript. T.T., M.S., Y.Yuzawa, M.O., S.K., A.H., Y.I., N.Sawa, Y.O., S.Matsuo, D.I., H.Makino, T.S., N.Sakai, Y.Yamamura, H.K., Y.Suzuki, H.S., N.U., Y.Ubara, S.N., H.Y., T.N., K.S., K.K., Y.Shibagaki, H.Mizuno, S.Matsuoka and Y.Ueda contributed to the discussion and reviewed the manuscript. T.W. is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Conflict of Interest Statement
No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.