What we do and do not know about women and kidney diseases; Questions unanswered and answers unquestioned: Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Woman’s Day

Piccoli GB Related information

¹Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
²Department of Nephrology, Centre Hospitalier Le Mans, Le Mans, France

Alrukhaimi M Related information

³Department of Medicine, Dubai Medical College, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Liu Z-H Related information

⁴National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Zakharova E Related information

⁵Department of Nephrology, Moscow City Hospital n.a. S.P. Botkin, Moscow, Russian Federation
⁶Department of Nephrology, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
⁷Department of Nephrology, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Moscow, Russian Federation

Levin A Related information

⁸Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Corresponding author: Adeera Levin

World Kidney Day Steering Committee

All authors contributed equally to the conception, preparation, and editing of the manuscript.

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Corresponding author: Adeera Levin

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia

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Members of the World Kidney Day Steering Committee: Philip Kam Tao Li, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Mohammed Benghanem-Gharbi, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Charles Kernahan, Latha Kumaraswami, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Gamal Saadi, Louise Fox, Elena Zakharova, and Sharon Andreoli.