Contributors
Hiroyuki Komatsu:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7557-2204
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole: Validation
Shouichi Fujimoto: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: Supervision
Shoichi Maruyama: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Masashi Mukoyama: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Hitoshi Sugiyama:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4127-6471
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Supervision
Kazuhiko Tsuruya: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Hiroshi Sato: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Supervision
Jun Soma: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Junko Yano: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Seiji Itano: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Tomoya Nishino: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Toshinobu Sato: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Ichiei Narita: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Hitoshi Yokoyama: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Validation
Ivan Cruz Moura: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
8
May
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0196955
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Nephrology, University of Miyazaki Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan
[2
]
Department of Hemovascular Medicine and Artificial Organs, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
[3
]
Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan
[4
]
Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University,
Kumamoto, Japan
[5
]
Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Okayama University Graduate School of
Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Science, Okayama, Japan
[6
]
Department of Integrated Therapy for Chronic Kidney Disease, Graduate School of Medical
Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
[7
]
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Sendai, Japan
[8
]
Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital, Iwate,
Japan
[9
]
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine,
Fukuoka, Japan
[10
]
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, Kawasaki
Medical School, Okayama, Japan
[11
]
Department of Nephrology, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan
[12
]
Department of Nephrology, Sendai Shakai Hoken Hospital, Sendai, Japan
[13
]
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental
Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
[14
]
Division of Nephrology, Kanazawa Medical University School of Medicine, Ishikawa,
Japan
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-06625
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196955
PMC ID: 5940189
PubMed ID: 29738576
SO-VID: 7fea810f-911b-4cbf-be2c-6ed2561fae1a
Copyright © © 2018 Komatsu et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 6
March
2018
Date
accepted
: 23
April
2018
Page count
Figures: 3,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 14
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005123, Japanese Society of Nephrology;
Award ID: JRBR-20
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7557-2204
Hiroyuki Komatsu
This study was supported in part by the Japanese Society of Nephrology, by a Grant-in-Aid
for Intractable Renal Diseases Research, Research on Rare and Intractable Diseases,
and by Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants from the Ministry of Health, Labour
and Welfare of Japan.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Geriatrics
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Age Groups
Subject:
Elderly
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Renal System
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Renal System
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Geriatrics
Subject:
Geriatric Nephrology
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nephrology
Subject:
Geriatric Nephrology
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Diagnostic Medicine
Subject:
Signs and Symptoms
Subject:
Proteinuria
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Signs and Symptoms
Subject:
Proteinuria
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pharmaceutics
Subject:
Drug Therapy
Subject:
Steroid Therapy
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pharmaceutics
Subject:
Drug Therapy
Subject:
Steroid Therapy
Subject:
Corticosteroid Therapy
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Proteins
Subject:
Albumins
Subject:
Serum Albumin
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