Endothelial function is preserved in light to moderate alcohol drinkers but is impaired in heavy drinkers in women: Flow-mediated Dilation Japan (FMD-J) study

• Nozomu Oda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nozomu Oda, Masato Kajikawa

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Masato Kajikawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nozomu Oda, Masato Kajikawa

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Regeneration and Medicine, Medical Center for Translational and Clinical Research, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Tatsuya Maruhashi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Regeneration and Medicine, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Shinji Kishimoto,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Regeneration and Medicine, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Farina Mohamad Yusoff,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Regeneration and Medicine, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Chikara Goto,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Hiroshima International University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Ayumu Nakashima,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Hirofumi Tomiyama,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Bonpei Takase,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Biomedical Engineering, National Defense Medical College Research Institute, Tokorozawa, Japan

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• Akira Yamashina,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yukihito Higashi

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yhigashi@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Division of Regeneration and Medicine, Medical Center for Translational and Clinical Research, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular Regeneration and Medicine, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5813-3672

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