1 From the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Japan (A.T., K.N.).
2 Department of Cardiology and Division of Preemptive Medicine for Vascular Damage, Tokyo Medical University, Japan (H.T.).
3 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences (T.M.), Hiroshima University, Japan.
4 Division of Cardiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Japan (Y.M.).
5 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan (T.M., H.I.).
6 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan (T.K., K.K.).
7 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes Care Center, Jinnouchi Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan (S.S.).
8 Research Center for Lifestyle-Related Disease, Tohoku Rosai Hospital, Sendai, Japan (M.M.).
9 Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of the Ryukyu School of Medicine, Okinawa, Japan (S.U.).
10 1st Cardiology Department, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Greece (C.V.).
11 Department of Regeneration and Medicine, Research Center for Radiation Genome Medicine, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine (Y.H.), Hiroshima University, Japan.
12 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan (T.I.).