1. Department of Nephrology, San Bortolo Hospital, Viale Rodolfi 37, Vicenza 36100, Italy
2. IRRIV, International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy
3. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA
4. Department of Cardiology, Applied Cachexia Research, Charité, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
5. Centre for Clinical and Basic Research, IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome, Italy
6. Department of Cardiology, VA Medical Centre, Minneapolis, MN, USA
7. Department of Cardiology, St Spirito Hospital, Rome, Italy
8. Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada
9. Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
10. Department of Nephrology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
11. Department of Cardiology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
12. UCL Center for Nephrology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
13. Division of Nephrology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
14. Trial Coordination Center, Department of Cardiology and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein, The Netherlands
15. Division of Nephrology, London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, Ont, Canada
16. Department of Surgery, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
17. Department of Medicine and Cardiology, San Diego VA Medical Center and University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
18. Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
19. Department of Nuclear Medicine, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
20. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hôpital Lariboisière. U 942 Inserm; University Paris 7, Paris Diderot, France
21. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Siena, Le Scotte Hospital, Siena, Italy
22. Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
23. Department of Critical Care, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
24. Division of Nephrology, Mediciti Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
25. Department of Internal Medicine, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
26. Department of Intensive Care, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
27. Cardiac Department, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University, Military Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland