About the Authors

Swapnil Hiremath

shiremath@toh.on.ca

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ayub Akbari

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Wael Shabana

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Dean A. Fergusson

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Greg A. Knoll

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH AA DF GK. Performed the experiments: SH AA DF WS GK. Analyzed the data: SH AA GK DF WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH AA GK DF WS. Wrote the paper: SH AA GK DF WS.