1 Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Barzilai University Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel.
2 School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
3 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
4 Department of Nephrology, HaEmeq Hospital Afula, Afula, Israel.
5 Clalit Health Services, Israel.
6 Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.