About the Authors

Masato Ogawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan, Department of International Health, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan

Kazuhiro P. Izawa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

izawapk@harbor.kobe-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of International Health, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan

Seimi Satomi-Kobayashi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Yasunori Tsuboi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Kodai Komaki

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Yasuko Gotake

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Yoshitada Sakai

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Hiroshi Tanaka

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Yutaka Okita

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.