Conflicting relationship between age-dependent disorders, valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease by covariance structure analysis: Possible contribution of natriuretic peptide

• Risa Fukumoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Risa Fukumoto, Makoto Kawai, Kosuke Minai, Kazuo Ogawa, Tomohisa Nagoshi, Michihiro Yoshimura

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

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Makoto Kawai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Risa Fukumoto, Makoto Kawai, Kosuke Minai, Kazuo Ogawa, Tomohisa Nagoshi, Michihiro Yoshimura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cadmk@jikei.ac.jp

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0914-9376

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• Kosuke Minai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Risa Fukumoto, Makoto Kawai, Kosuke Minai, Kazuo Ogawa, Tomohisa Nagoshi, Michihiro Yoshimura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazuo Ogawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Risa Fukumoto, Makoto Kawai, Kosuke Minai, Kazuo Ogawa, Tomohisa Nagoshi, Michihiro Yoshimura

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Jun Yoshida ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yasunori Inoue ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Satoshi Morimoto ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toshikazu Tanaka ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tomohisa Nagoshi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Risa Fukumoto, Makoto Kawai, Kosuke Minai, Kazuo Ogawa, Tomohisa Nagoshi, Michihiro Yoshimura

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takayuki Ogawa ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Michihiro Yoshimura

  Contributed equally to this work with: Risa Fukumoto, Makoto Kawai, Kosuke Minai, Kazuo Ogawa, Tomohisa Nagoshi, Michihiro Yoshimura

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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