About the Authors

Satoshi Ito

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Tomohisa Nagoshi

tnagoshi@jikei.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Kosuke Minai

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Yusuke Kashiwagi

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Hiroshi Sekiyama

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Akira Yoshii

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Haruka Kimura

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Yasunori Inoue

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Kazuo Ogawa

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Toshikazu D. Tanaka

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Takayuki Ogawa

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Makoto Kawai

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Michihiro Yoshimura

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SI TN MY. Formal analysis: SI KM YI MK MY. Investigation: SI YK HS AY HK KO TT. Methodology: KM TO MY. Project administration: TN MY. Resources: KM TO. Supervision: SI TN MY. Visualization: SI TN. Writing – original draft: SI TN HS TT MY. Writing – review & editing: SI TN MK MY.