1. Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, bmbrenner@ bics.bwh.harvard.edu
2. Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
4. Service Nephrologie, Groupe Hospitalier, Necker-Enfants Maldes, Paris, France
5. Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
6. Dean's Office, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
7. Department of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
8. Renal Division, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
9. Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
10. Laboratori Negri Bergamo, Instituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo, Italy
11. Nephrology Division, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
12. Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
13. Merck Research Laboratories, Blue Bell, PA, USA