1. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Cesar Milstein Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2. Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Laboratory of Lipids and Atherosclerosis, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, INFIBIOC-University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
3. Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan.
4. Graduate School of Health Sciences, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan.