About the Authors

Yoshitaka Okuhara

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

okuhara@hyo-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Masanori Asakura

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Kohei Azuma

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Yoshiyuki Orihara

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Koichi Nishimura

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Tomotaka Ando

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Hideyuki Kondo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Yoshiro Naito

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Kazunori Kashiwase

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Shinichi Hirotani

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Masaharu Ishihara

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Tohru Masuyama

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.