Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan tanakaa2@cc.saga-u.ac.jp node@cc.saga-u.ac.jp.
• ² Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
• ³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, JR Hiroshima Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
• ⁴ First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Mibu, Japan.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Department of Rehabilitation, Kitasato University School of Allied Health Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan.
• ¹¹ Department of Medical Statistics, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
• ¹² Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹³ Clinical Research and Quality Management Center, University of the Ryukyus Hospital, Nishihara, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Regeneration and Medicine, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.