1. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine
2. These authors equally contributed to this work
3. Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Novel, Non-invasive, and Nutritional Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
4. Department of Pathology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
5. Department of Cardiology, Aichi Medical University
6. Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
7. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
8. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Kidney and Dialysis, Hyogo College of Medicine
9. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
10. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
11. Department of Cardiology, Komaki City Hospital
12. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyushu University
13. Department of Radiology, Osaka National Hospital, National Hospital Organization
14. Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
15. Department of General Medicine, Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center
16. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital
17. The principal investigator for the Japan TGCV study group