Shindo, Kazuhiro
Fukuda, Hiroki
Hitsumoto, Tatsuro
Ito, Shin
Kim, Jiyoong
Washio, Takashi
Kitakaze, Masafumi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5157-4213
Funding for this research was provided by:
Instituto de Pesquisa TranslacioGrants-in-aid from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare-Japan,
Grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan
Grants-in-aid from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Article History
First Online: 20 February 2020
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: Nothing to disclose for K.S., H.F., T.H., S.I., J.K., H.A., O.T., and T.W. H.T. reports personal fees from Astellas, Otsuka, Takeda, Daiichi-Sankyo, Tanabe-Mitsubishi, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Bayer, and Bristol Myers Squibb. Dr. Asakura reports grants from Acterion Pharmaceutical Japan; grants from Boehringer Ingelheim Japan, Inc.; personal fees from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; personal fees from Sanofi K.K.; personal fees from Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd.; personal fees from MSD K.K.; personal fees from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; personal fees from Ono; personal fees from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation; personal fees from Daiichi-sankyo; personal fees from Pfizer Japan Inc.; and personal fees from Astellas Amgen Biopharma, outside the submitted work. Dr. Kitakaze reports grants and personal fees from Takeda, during the conduct of the study, grants from Japanese government, grants from Japan Heart Foundation, grants from Japan Cardiovascular Research Foundation, grants and personal fees from Astellas Amgen Biopharma, grants and personal fees from Sanofi, personal fees from Daiichi-sankyo, grants and personal fees from Pfizer, grants and personal fees from Ono, personal fees from Bayer, grants and personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Bheringer, grants and personal fees from Tanabe-Mitsubishi, personal fees from Kowa, grants and personal fees from Kyowa-hakko-kirin, personal fees from Dainihon-sumitomo, personal fees from Sawai, personal fees from MSD, grants and personal fees from Abott, grants and personal fees from Otsuka, grants from Calpis, grants from Nihon Kohden, personal fees from Shionogi, personal fees from Astrazeneca, personal fees from Asahikasei Med., personal fees from Novo nordisk, personal fees from Fuji-film RI, and personal fees from Japan Medical Data.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.