Affiliations

• ¹ From the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Japan (A.T., K.N.).
• ² Department of Cardiology and Division of Preemptive Medicine for Vascular Damage, Tokyo Medical University, Japan (H.T.).
• ³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences (T.M.), Hiroshima University, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Japan (Y.M.).
• ⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan (T.M., H.I.).
• ⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan (T.K., K.K.).
• ⁷ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes Care Center, Jinnouchi Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan (S.S.).
• ⁸ Research Center for Lifestyle-Related Disease, Tohoku Rosai Hospital, Sendai, Japan (M.M.).
• ⁹ Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of the Ryukyu School of Medicine, Okinawa, Japan (S.U.).
• ¹⁰ 1st Cardiology Department, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Greece (C.V.).
• ¹¹ Department of Regeneration and Medicine, Research Center for Radiation Genome Medicine, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine (Y.H.), Hiroshima University, Japan.
• ¹² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan (T.I.).