Published Online: June 2, 2014. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.4952.
Study concept and design: All authors.
Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors.
Drafting of the manuscript: Garg.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Statistical analysis: Garg, Cuerden, Cook.
Obtained funding: All authors.
Administrative, technical, or material support: All authors.
Study supervision: All authors.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Dr Garg reported receiving grant funding from Astellas, Roche, and Pfizer outside the submitted work. Dr Devereaux reported receiving grants from Abbott Diagnostics, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Covidien, Roche Diagnostics, and Stryker outside the submitted work. Dr Parikh reported participating on a data monitoring committee for a phase 2 trial sponsored by Abbvie. Drs Yusuf, Coca, Walsh, Novick, Cook, Jain, Pan, Noiseux, Vik, Stolf, Ritchie, Favaloro, Parvathaneni, Whitlock, Ou, and Lamy and Mss Cuerden and Lawrence reported no disclosures.
Funding/Support: The Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery Off- or On-pump Revascularisation Study (CORONARY) and this kidney function substudy were financially supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Role of the Sponsors: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Group Information: Investigators from the kidney function substudy of CORONARY at the coordinating center: S. Chrolavicius (project manager), Y. Ou (coordinator), M. Lawrence (events adjudication coordinator), J. Pogue (statistician), and A. X. Garg (kidney events adjudication), L. Robinson, A. Lamy, P. J. Devereaux, R. Whitlock, and S. Yusuf. Recruiting center principal investigators: H. Cacheda, R. R. Favaloro, W. D. Ferrara, and P. A. Olavegogeascoechea (Argentina); M. P. Vallely (Australia); D. M. Braile, E. Buffolo, F. D. A. Costa, J. B. P. de Oliveira, L. C. B. de Sousa, N. A. Groppo Stolf, F. A. Lucchese, A. C. Penna, A. C. Pires, and L. A. Rivetti (Brazil); R. Cartier, S. E. Fremes, D. M. Greentree, T. M. Kieser, A. Lamy, N. Noiseux, and R. J. Novick (Canada); X. Chen, C. Gao, T. Gu, S. Hu, Y. Kong, X. Meng, P. Su, L. Tao, C. Wang, S. Xue, D. Yi, and Q. Zhao (China); V. R. Castillo (Colombia); R. Brat, J. Harrer, V. Mikulenka, Z. Straka, and K. Vik (Czech Republic ); T. A. Sulling (Estonia); S. Chocron (France); S. K. Agarwal, B. Airan, D. R. Ayapati, A. G. Gokhale, A. R. Jain, U. Kaul, C. Padmanabhan, S. K. Reddy, P. Vaijyanath, and M. P. Vettath (India); M. Bentala (the Netherlands); D. R. De Souza (Sweden); A. R. Akar, S. Aykut Aka, K. Kaya, and E. Sener (Turkey); O. Gogayeva (Ukraine); A. J. Ritchie, D. P. Taggart, and V. Zamvar (United Kingdom); and S. V. Parvathaneni (United States).
Correction: This article was corrected online June 3, 2014, for changes to Table 1.