1. From the Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (Y.Y.); Department of Hemovascular Medicine and Artificial Organs, Faculty of Medicine (S.F.) and Dialysis Division, University of Miyazaki Hospital (Y.S.), University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan; Department of Public Health Sciences (H.K.) and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension (H.K.), Loyola Medical Center, Maywood, IL; Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology, Yamagata...