Correction to: BMC Nephrology (2018) 19:357

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-018-1165-1

Following publication of the original article [1], it was reported that, due to a typesetting mistake, the three tables and two figures for this article were included as an Additional file instead of in the body of the article. The original publication of this article has been updated to correct this.

The publisher apologises to the authors and readers for the inconvenience.