*Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research & Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California;
†Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California;
‡David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California;
§Institute of Pathophysiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary;
‖Division of Nephrology, Salem VA Medical Center, Salem, Virginia;
¶Division of Nephrology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia;
**DaVita, Inc., El Segundo, California; and
††Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
Correspondence: Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 West Carson Street, C1-Annex, Torrance, CA 90509-2910. Phone: 310-222-3891; Fax: 310-782-1837; E-mail: [email protected]
U.D. and M.Z.M. contributed equally to this work.
Received October 7, 2010
Accepted December 20, 2010