Sugawa, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7988-4157
Masuda, Izuru
Kato, Kiminori
Yoshimura, Michihiro
Article History
Received: 14 December 2017
Accepted: 13 March 2018
First Online: 23 March 2018
Competing Interests
: The cost of measuring cTnI and BNP levels was incurred by Abbott Japan. S.S. is an employee of Abbott Japan. I.M. has no competing interests. K.K. has a laboratory at Niigata University which is partially subsidized by Niigata Association of Occupational Health, Inc. M.Y. has financial relationships with Mochida Pharmaceutical, MSD, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Pfizer Japan, Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical. All the authors do not have non-financial competing interests. The authors take responsibility for all aspects of the reliability and freedom from bias of the data presented and their discussed interpretation.