About the Authors

Claudia C. Dobler

cdobler@med.usyd.edu.au

Affiliations Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stephen P. McDonald

Affiliations Austrailia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Guy B. Marks

Affiliations Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBM CCD SPM. Analyzed the data: CCD GBM SPM. Wrote the paper: CCD GBM SPM. Study concept and design: GBM CCD SPM. Acquired data: CCD GBM SPM. Drafted the manuscript: CCD. Revised the manuscript for important content: CCD GBM SPM. Analyzed the data: GBM CCD SPM. Performed the statistical analysis: GBM.