1. Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe
2. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka
3. Department of Molecular Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba
4. Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Gunma
5. Department of Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto
6. Department of Internal Medicine and Molecular Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka
7. Fourth Department of Medicine, Saitama Medical School, Saitama
8. Department of Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
9. Institute of Clinical Medicine Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Atherosclerosis, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
10. Department of Metabolic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
11. Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo
12. Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine and the
13. First Department of Medicine, Wakayama University of Medical Science, Wakayama
14. Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamaguchi University, School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan