YAMADA Hirotsugu^{1, 2, 3}, KUSUNOSE Kenya^{2, 3}, SAIJO Yoshihito², YAMADA Nao², TORII Yuta³, HIRATA Yukina³, YAMAO Masami³, NISHIO Susumu³, SOEKI Takeshi², SATA Masataka^{2, 3} (1.Community Medicine for Cardiology, Tokushima Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 2.Cardiovcascular Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital, 3.Ultrasound Examination Center, Tokushima University Hospital)

IZUMI Yuki, YOSHINAGA Aya, YOSHIKAWA Masatomo, TOKITA Yukichi, IWASAKI Yu-Ki, HONMA Hiroshi, SHIMIZU Wataru (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School)

KOMATSU Miyo¹, WATANABE Nozomi², NISHINO Shun², SHIBATA Yoshisato² (1.Clinical Laboratory, Miyazaki Medical Association Hospital, 2.Miyazaki Medical Association Hospital Cardiovascular Center)

ISOTANI Akihiro¹, UMEDA Hiromi² (1.Department of Cardiology, Kokura Memorial Hospital, 2.Department of Medical technologist, Kokura Memorial Hospital)

SUZUKI Hirohide¹, DAIMON Masao² (1.Department of Clinical Laboratory, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 2.Department of Clinical Laboratory / Cardiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital)

NAITO Hiroyuki¹, NAKAJIMA Hideki¹, IIDA Noriko¹, ISHIZU Tomoko², KAWAKAMI Yasushi² (1.Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tsukuba University Hospital, 2.Division of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba)