1. Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and Department of Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2. Department of Internal Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA
3. Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Hypertension, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
4. Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
5. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Cardiovascular Translational Research Centre, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolin, USA