Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan (S.M., M.G., T.S.).
• ² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Hyogo (A.K.).
• ³ Department of Cardiology, National Hospital Organization Higashihiroshima Medical Center, Hiroshima, Japan (H.J.).
• ⁴ Department of Cardiology, Edogawa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (T.K.).
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Japan (K.Y.).
• ⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Japan (M. Mukai, H.T.).
• ⁷ Department of Cardiology, Japanese Red Cross Yokohama City Bay Hospital, Kanagawa (Y.S., Y.Y.).
• ⁸ Department of Cardiology, Yamanashi Kosei Hospital, Japan (T.A.).
• ⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sendai City Hospital, Miyagi, Japan (E.S.).
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Ome Municipal General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (K.Y., Y.O.).
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiology, Naha City Hospital, Okinawa (M. Manita).
• ¹² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa (H.F.).
• ¹³ Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan (H.H.).
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiology, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Japan (K.T.).
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, Okitama Public General Hospital, Yamagata, Japan (T.I.).
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiology, Urasoe General Hospital, Okinawa (S.C.).
• ¹⁷ Cardiovascular Center, Tachikawa General Hospital, Niigata, Japan (A.S.).
• ¹⁸ Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan (Y.S., J.N.).
• ¹⁹ Department of Cardiology and Geriatrics, Kochi University, Kerala, India (K.S., T. Hirota).
• ²⁰ Department of Cardiology, Hiratsuka Kyosai Hospital, Kanagawa (S.I., N.K.).
• ²¹ Department of Cardiology, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital, Tokyo (Y.I., O.I., T. Horie, Y.N.).
• ²² Cardiovascular Center, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan (N.M., H.H.).