About the Authors

Kazutaka Ueda

uedak-tky@umin.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Masashi Kasao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Motoaki Shimamura

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Hironori Haruta

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Shuya Nitta

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsunobu Kaneko

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yukari Uemura

Affiliation Biostatistics Division, Central Coordinating Unit, Clinical Research Support Center, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Morita

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Issei Komuro

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuro Shirai

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KU M. Kasao SN TS. Formal analysis: KU YU. Funding acquisition: KU M. Kasao. Investigation: KU MS SN M. Kaneko HH. Methodology: KU M. Kasao SN M. Kaneko. Project administration: M. Kasao. Resources: KU M. Kasao. Supervision: M. Kasao TS. Visualization: KU. Writing – original draft: KU M. Kasao HM. Writing – review & editing: IK TS.