Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Hygiene, Wakayama Medical University.
• ² Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine.
• ³ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University.
• ⁴ Department of Health and Nutrition, Wayo Women's University.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology, Kurume Univeristy Medical Center.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, Rinku General Medical Center.
• ⁷ Department of Clinical Nursing, Shiga University of Medical Science.
• ⁸ Department of Diabetes and Endocrine Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences.
• ⁹ Department of General Medical Science, Chiba University School of Medicine.
• ¹⁰ Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Eastern Chiba Medical Center.
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
• ¹² Department of General Medicine, Shinshu University Hospital.
• ¹³ Division of Helath Science, Osaka University Gradiate School of Medicine.
• ¹⁴ Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine.
• ¹⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aichi Medical University.
• ¹⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital.
• ¹⁷ Division of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition, Kobe Gakuin University.
• ¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School.
• ¹⁹ Department of General Internal Medicine, Takatsuki General Hospital.
• ²⁰ Division of Health Sciences, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
• ²¹ Department of Medical and Health Information Management, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center.
• ²² Division of Social Preventive Medical Sciences, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University.
• ²³ Department of Hospital Medicine, Hiroo Hospital.
• ²⁴ Department of Cardiology, Aichi Medical University.
• ²⁵ Department of Pediatrics, JCHO Takaoka Fushiki Hospital.
• ²⁶ Department of Cardiology, Shizuoka Children's Hospital.
• ²⁷ Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.
• ²⁸ Department of Women's Health, Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
• ²⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital.
• ³⁰ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nishinomiya Watanabe Cardiovascular Cerebral Center.
• ³¹ Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Meidicine.
• ³² Department of Preventive Medicine, NCD Epidemiology Research Center, Shiga University of Medical Science.
• ³³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University.