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1Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 2Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, and Department of Urology, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 3Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of PublicHealth, AnnArbor, MI, USA; 4Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; 5Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, and Showa University Research Administration Center (SURAC), Showa University, Tokyo, Japan; 6Cliniques universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; 7Institute of Public Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 8Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; 9Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Department of Internal Medicine-Nephrology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Purpose: Mortality among first-year hemodialysis (HD) patients remains unacceptably high.