Bernadette Thomas, Kunihiro Matsushita, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Ziyad Al-Aly, Johan Ärnlöv, Kei Asayama, Robert Atkins, Alaa Badawi, Shoshana H. Ballew, Amitava Banerjee, Lars Barregård, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Sanjay Basu, Aminu K. Bello, Isabela Bensenor, Jaclyn Bergstrom, Boris Bikbov, Christopher Blosser, Hermann Brenner, Juan-Jesus Carrero, Steve Chadban, Massimo Cirillo, Monica Cortinovis, Karen Courville, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Kara Estep, João Fernandes, Florian Fischer, Caroline Fox, Ron T. Gansevoort, Philimon N. Gona, Orlando M. Gutierrez, Samer Hamidi, Sarah Wulf Hanson, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Simerjot K. Jassal, Sun Ha Jee, Vivekanand Jha, Aida Jimenez-Corona, Jost B. Jonas, Andre Pascal Kengne, Yousef Khader, Young-Ho Khang, Yun Jin Kim, Barbara Klein, Ronald Klein, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Dhaval Kolte, Kristine Lee, Andrew S. Levey, Yongmei Li, Paulo Lotufo, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Walter Mendoza, Hirohito Metoki, Yejin Mok, Isao Muraki, Paul M. Muntner, Hiroyuki Noda, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Alberto Ortiz, Norberto Perico, Kevan Polkinghorne, Rajaa Al-Radaddi, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Gregory Roth, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Michihiro Satoh, Kai-Uwe Saum, Monika Sawhney, Ben Schöttker, Anoop Shankar, Michael Shlipak, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Hideaki Toyoshima, Kingsley Ukwaja, Mitsumasa Umesawa, Stein Emil Vollset, David G. Warnock, Andrea Werdecker, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Yuichiro Yano, Naohiro Yonemoto, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Mohsen Naghavi, Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Christopher J.L. Murray, Josef Coresh, Theo Vos, on behalf of the Global Burden of Disease 2013 GFR Collaborators, CKD Prognosis Consortium, Global Burden of Disease Genitourinary Expert Group