About the Authors

Tomokazu Konishi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

konishi@akita-pu.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan

Risako Fujiwara

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Research Institute of Akita Cerebrospinal and Cardiovascular Center, Akita Prefectural Hospital Organization, Akita, Japan, Cardiovascular internal medicine, Akita City Hospital, Akita, Japan

Tadaaki Saito

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan

Nozomi Satou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan

Yurie Hayashi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan

Naoko Crofts

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan

Ikuko Iwasaki

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan

Yoshihisa Abe

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cardiovascular internal medicine, Akita City Hospital, Akita, Japan

Shinpei Kawata

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Research Institute of Akita Cerebrospinal and Cardiovascular Center, Akita Prefectural Hospital Organization, Akita, Japan

Tatsuya Ishikawa

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Research Institute of Akita Cerebrospinal and Cardiovascular Center, Akita Prefectural Hospital Organization, Akita, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.