Tomomi Murai: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Noriko Takebe: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
Kan Nagasawa: Role: Data curation
Yusuke Todate: Role: Data curation
Riyuki Nakagawa: Role: Data curation
Rieko Nakano: Role: Data curation
Mari Hangai: Role: Data curation
Yutaka Hasegawa: Role: Writing – review & editing
Yoshihiko Takahashi: Role: Supervision
Kunihiro Yoshioka: Role: MethodologyRole: Visualization
Yasushi Ishigaki:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2479-5752
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – original draft
Yu Wang: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
18
September
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 9
Electronic Location Identifier: e0184723
Affiliations
[1
]
Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical
University, Morioka, Japan
[2
]
Division of Cardiovascular Radiology, Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University,
Morioka, Japan
The University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-17-06794
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184723
PMC ID: 5603154
PubMed ID: 28922364
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Copyright © © 2017 Murai et al
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Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001700, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology;
Award ID: S1491001, 2014–2018
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2479-5752
Yasushi Ishigaki
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001691, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science;
Award ID: 15K09416
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2479-5752
Yasushi Ishigaki
This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (15K09416) to Y.I.,
from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a Grant-in-Aid for Strategic
Medical Science Research (S1491001, 2014–2018) from the Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
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