About the Authors

Yuichi Ozaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Atsushi Tanaka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

a-tanaka@wakayama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Tsuyoshi Nishiguchi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Kenichi Komukai

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

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hidaka General Hospital, Gobo, Japan

Akira Taruya

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Keisuke Satogami

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Manabu Kashiwagi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Akio Kuroi

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Yoshiki Matsuo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Yasushi Ino

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Hironori Kitabata

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Takashi Kubo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Takeshi Hozumi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Takashi Akasaka

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.