1. Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Kitakyushu, Japan
2. Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
3. Department of Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Kitakyushu, Japan
4. Department of Echocardiography, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
5. Department of Cardiology, the Sakakibara Heart Institution of Okayama, Okayama, Japan
6. Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Sakakibara Heart Institution of Okayama, Okayama, Japan
7. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Hypertension, Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
8. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
9. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Kitakyushu, Japan