About the Authors

Tomomi Murai

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Noriko Takebe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Kan Nagasawa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Yusuke Todate

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Riyuki Nakagawa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Rieko Nakano

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Mari Hangai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Yutaka Hasegawa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Yoshihiko Takahashi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Kunihiro Yoshioka

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Radiology, Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Yasushi Ishigaki

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

ishigaki@iwate-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.