Bidirectional Relationship Between Kidney Disease Progression and Cardiovascular Events in Type 2 Diabetes.

Competing Interests: Funding Support and Author Disclosures Dr Neuen has received fees for travel support, advisory boards, and scientific presentations from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cambridge Healthcare Research, Cornerstone Medical Education, the Limbic, Janssen, Medscape, Novo Nordisk, and Travere Therapeutics; and has served on clinical trial committees for studies sponsored by AstraZeneca, Bayer, and CSL Behring, with all honoraria paid to The George Institute for Global Health. Dr Ostrominski has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health (grant 5T32HL007604-39). Dr Claggett as received consulting fees from Alnylam, Cardurion, Corvia, Cytokinetics, Intellia, and Rocket. Dr McCausland has received research funding from National Institutes of Health, Satellite Healthcare, Fifth Eye, Novartis, and Lexicon paid directly to his institution; and has received consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline and Zydus Therapeutics. Dr Badve has received consulting fees from Bayer, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Vifor Pharma; has received speaker fees from Bayer, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Vifor Pharma (all honoraria paid to his institution); and has received nonfinancial research support from Bayer. Dr Arnott has received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Amgen. Dr Heerspink has received grants or contracts from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen, and Novo Nordisk; has received consulting fees from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Behring, Dimerix, Eli Lilly, Gilead, Janssen, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, and Travere Therapeutics; and has received payment or honoraria for speaking from AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk. Dr Jun has been responsible for research projects that have received unrestricted research funding from Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly Alliance. Dr Pollock serves as an Advisory Board member for AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, and Vifor Pharma; and has received speaker fees for AstraZeneca, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Otsuka, and Vifor Pharma. Dr Jardine is supported by an National Health and Medical Research Council investigator grant; has been responsible for research projects that have received funding from Amgen, Baxter, CSL, Dimerix, Eli Lilly, Gambro, and Merck Sharp & Dohme; and has received fees for advisory, steering committee, scientific presentations, or a combination of these from Akebia, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Baxter, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cesas Linx, Chinook, CSL, Janssen, Medscape, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Occuryx, Roche, and Vifor with any consultancy, honoraria, or travel support paid to her institution. Dr Mahaffey has received research support from Afferent, Amgen, Apple, AstraZeneca, Cardiva Medical, Daiichi, Ferring, Google (Verily), Johnson & Johnson, Luitpold, Medtronic, Merck, National Institutes of Health, Novartis, Sanofi, St Jude, and Tenax; and has served as a consultant (speaker fees for CME events only) for Abbott, Ablynx, AstraZeneca, Baim Institute, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Elsevier, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, MedErgy, Medscape, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Myokardia, the National Institutes for Health, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Portola, Radiometer, Regeneron, Springer Publishing, and the University of California-San Francisco. Dr Perkovic serves as a board director for St Vincent’s Health Australia, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, and Mindgardens; and has received honoraria for steering committee roles, scientific presentations, advisory board attendance, or a combination of these from Abbvie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Baxter, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chinook, Durect, Eli Lilly, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Merck, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Mundipharma, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Otsuka, Pharmalink, Pfizer, Reata, Travere, Relypsa, Roche, Sanofi, Servier, and Tricida. Dr Solomon has received research grants from Actelion, Alnylam, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bellerophon, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celladon, Cytokinetics, Eidos, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Ionis, Lilly, Mesoblast, MyoKardia, National Institutes of Health/NHLBI, Neurotronik, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Respicardia, Sanofi Pasteur, Theracos, and US2.AI; and has consulted for Abbott, Action, Akros, Alnylam, Amgen, Arena, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cardior, Cardurion, Corvia, Cytokinetics, Daiichi-Sankyo, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Merck, Myokardia, Novartis, Roche, Theracos, Quantum Genomics, Cardurion, Janssen, Cardiac Dimensions, Tenaya, Sanofi-Pasteur, Dinaqor, Tremeau, CellPro-Thera, Moderna, American Regent, and Sarepta. Dr Vaduganathan has received research grant support, served on advisory boards, or had speaker engagements with American Regent, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer AG, Baxter Healthcare, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Cytokinetics, Fresenius Medical Care, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Milestone Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pharmacosmos, Relypsa, Roche Diagnostics, Sanofi, and Tricog Health; and participates on clinical trial committees for studies sponsored by AstraZeneca, Galmed, Novartis, Bayer AG, Occlutech, and Impulse Dynamics. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.