Christian A. Plass, MD,a Bruno K. Podesser, MD,c,d and Alexander M. Prusa, MDb

Mats Dreifaldt,a Domingos S. R. Souza,a Andrzej Loesch,b John R. Muddle,c Mats G. Karlsson,d
Derek Filbey,d Lennart Bodin,e Lars Norgren,f and Michael R Dashwoodg

Ellen A. ten Brinke, MD,a Robert J. Klautz, MD, PhD,b Sven A. Tulner, MD, PhD,a Harriette F. Verwey, MD, PhD,a Jeroen J. Bax, MD, PhD,a Martin J. Schalij, MD, PhD,a Ernst E. van der
Wall, MD, PhD,a Michel I. Versteegh, MD,b Robert A. Dion, MD, PhD,b and Paul Steendijk, PhDa

Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD, Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH, Lori D. Bas

Ivar Risnes, MD, PhD, Michael Abdelnoor, MPH, PhD, Sven M. Almdahl, MD, PhD, and
Jan L. Svennevig, MD, PhD

Rachelle Bross, RD, PhD,1,2,3 Gangadarshni Chandramohan, MD,4 Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD,5 Antigone Oreopoulos, MSc,6 Nazanin Noori, MD, PhD,1 Sarah Golden, MPH, RD,1,2,3
Deborah Benner, RD,7 Joel D. Kopple, MD,3,8,9 and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD1,4,8,9

Ivana Dostálová1*, Petra Kaválková1*, Hana Papežová2, Daniela Domluvilová2, Vít Zikán1
and Martin Haluzík1§

Yasushi Matsuzawa, MD,* Seigo Sugiyama, MD, PHD,* Koichi Sugamura, MD, PHD,*
Toshimitsu Nozaki, MD,* Keisuke Ohba, MD,* Masaaki Konishi, MD,* Junichi Matsubara, MD,*
Hitoshi Sumida, MD, PHD,* Koichi Kaikita, MD, PHD,* Sunao Kojima, MD, PHD,*
Yasuhiro Nagayoshi, MD, PHD,* Megumi Yamamuro, MD, PHD,* Yasuhiro Izumiya, MD, PHD,*
Satomi Iwashita, MT,* Kunihiko Matsui, MD, PHD,† Hideaki Jinnouchi, MD, PHD,‡
Kazuo Kimura, MD, PHD,§ Satoshi Umemura, MD, PHD,
Hisao Ogawa, MD, PHD*

Bill Q. Lian, MD, PHD, John F. Keaney, JR, MD

R. L. Araujo, B. M. Andrade, A. S. Padro´ n, M. P. Gaidhu, R. L. S. Perry,
D. P. Carvalho, and R. B. Ceddia