About the Authors

Kentaro Arakawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoaki Ishigami

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

tommmish@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Michiko Nakai-Sugiyama

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Lin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Doi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Tabito Kino

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Shintaro Minegishi

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Sae Saigoh-Teranaka

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Rie Sasaki-Nakashima

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Kiyoshi Hibi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuo Kimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuo Kimura, Kouichi Tamura

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan

Kouichi Tamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuo Kimura, Kouichi Tamura

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Cardiorenal Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.