1. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School
2. Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School
3. Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto University
4. Department of Cardiology, Heart and Vascular Institute, Funabashi Municipal Medical Center
5. Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute
6. Department of Cardiology, St. Luke’s International Hospital
7. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
8. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine
9. Department of General Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School
10. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
11. Department of Vascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
12. Department of Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratories, Shonan Oiso Hospital/Shonan Kamkura Hospital
13. Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Hospital
14. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
15. Kikuna Memorial Hospital
16. Cardiovascular Center, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
17. Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University
18. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
19. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
20. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyorin University School, Faculty of Medicine
21. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
22. Department of General Medicine, Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital