Naohisa Tamura:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-6215
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – original draft
Erika Watanabe: Role: Investigation
Rumi Shirakawa: Role: Investigation
Eiji Nakatani:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-446X
Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Kanako Yamada: Role: Resources
Hiroshi Hatakeyama: Role: Resources
Mizuki Torii-Hanakita: Role: Resources
Chika Kyo: Role: Resources
Rieko Kosugi: Role: Resources
Tatsuo Ogawa: Role: Resources
Masato Kotani: Role: Resources
Takeshi Usui: Role: Resources
Tatsuhide Inoue: Role: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Michael Bader: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
9
July
2021
Publication date Collection: 2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 7
Electronic Location Identifier: e0253807
Affiliations
[1
]
Research Support Center, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
[2
]
Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka,
Shizuoka, Japan
[3
]
Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Shizuoka,
Japan
[4
]
Department of Medical Genetics, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Max Delbruck Centrum fur Molekulare Medizin Berlin Buch, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation, Osaka, Japan (
http://ffwk.fujifilm.co.jp) provided the authors an Accuraseed
® automated chemiluminescent enzyme immunoanalyzer, and Accuraseed
® Aldosterone and Accuraseed
® Renin kits to perform this study. The company did not provide the authors grants,
royalties or licenses, consulting fees, payment or honoraria, support for attending
meeting and/or travel, or stock or stock options. There are no patents planned, issued,
or pending in relation to this study. The company had no role in the study design;
collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the paper; and/or decision
to submit for publication. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies
on sharing data and materials. Sharing the data of the present study is restricted
by the Shizuoka General Hospital Research Ethical Committee following the Ethical
Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects in Japan as described
in the Data Availability statement. The de-identified dataset of this study is available
on request to Shizuoka General Hospital Research Ethical Committee, Email:
chiken-sougou@
123456shizuoka-pho.jp
. All requests must include an analysis plan and the plan must be approved by this
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Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-21-05833
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253807
PMC ID: 8270132
PubMed ID: 34242264
SO-VID: ab5f6ebe-4d1d-4ff3-91b4-03511d6aac33
Copyright © © 2021 Tamura et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
This study was performed as a collaboration with FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation,
Osaka, Japan (
http://ffwk.fujifilm.co.jp), which provided the authors an Accuraseed
® automated chemiluminescent enzyme immunoanalyzer, and Accuraseed
® Aldosterone and Accuraseed
® Renin kits to perform this study. The company had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors received
no specific funding for this work.
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Aldosterone
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Statistical Methods
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Linear Regression Analysis
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