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1 From the Department of Medicine, Okinawa Miyako Hospital (M.M., S.S.), and the Department of Medicine, Okinawa Chubu Hospital (M.K.) - both in Okinawa, Japan; Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA (M.M.); the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (R.M.); and the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (A.P.J.O.).
1 From the Department of Medicine, Okinawa Miyako Hospital (M.M., S.S.), and the Department of Medicine, Okinawa Chubu Hospital (M.K.) - both in Okinawa, Japan; Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA (M.M.); the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (R.M.); and the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (A.P.J.O.).