About the Authors

Yukio Yamori

yamori@cardiacstudy.com

Affiliations Mukogawa Women’s University Institute for World Health Development, Hyogo Japan, Laboratory of Preventive Nutritional Medicine, Research Institute for Production and Development, Kyoto, Japan, Hyogo Prefecture Health Promotion Association, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Miki Sagara

Affiliation Laboratory of Preventive Nutritional Medicine, Research Institute for Production and Development, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshimi Arai

Affiliation Hyogo Prefecture Health Promotion Association, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Hitomi Kobayashi

Affiliation Hyogo Prefecture Health Promotion Association, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Kazumi Kishimoto

Affiliation Hyogo Prefecture Health Promotion Association, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Ikuko Matsuno

Affiliation Hyogo Prefecture Health Promotion Association, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Hideki Mori

Affiliation Mukogawa Women’s University Institute for World Health Development, Hyogo Japan

Mari Mori

Affiliation Mukogawa Women’s University Institute for World Health Development, Hyogo Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YY. Data curation: MS MM IM. Formal analysis: MS MM. Funding acquisition: YY. Investigation: YA KK IM. Methodology: MS MM. Project administration: YY. Resources: YY HM HK. Software: MS MM. Supervision: YY. Validation: YY. Visualization: YY. Writing – original draft: YY. Writing – review & editing: YY.