About the Authors

Yuichi Tamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuichi Tamura, Tomohiko Ono

u1@ta-mu.net

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiko Ono

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuichi Tamura, Tomohiko Ono

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Masataka Kuwana

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Inoue

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Takei

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tsunehisa Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Kawakami

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Fujita

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Masaharu Kataoka

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kensuke Kimura

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Motoaki Sano

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Daida

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Toru Satoh

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Keiichi Fukuda

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YT TO KI. Performed the experiments: M. Kuwana MT TY M. Kataoka. Analyzed the data: KK MS TK JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KI HD TS KF. Wrote the paper: YT KF.