Correction to: Hypertension Research (2009) 32, 505–512; doi:10.1038/hr.2009.44

During typesetting and correction of the above paper, Stage 3 was applied twice in Table 3 and published as such. The publishers apologize for this and are now happy to correct this mistake. The correct table is shown below:

Table 3 Comparison of composite cardiovascular end point and each cardiovascular event in various CKD stages