Mitsuaki Isobe1, Koichi Amano2, Yoshihiro Arimura3,4, Akihiro Ishizu5, Shuichi Ito6, Shinya Kaname7, Shigeto Kobayashi8, Yoshinori Komagata7, Issei Komuro9, Kimihiro Komori10, Kei Takahashi11, Kazuo Tanemoto12, Hitoshi Hasegawa13, Masayoshi Harigai14, Shouichi Fujimoto15, Tatsuhiko Miyazaki16, Tetsuro Miyata17, Hidehiro Yamada18, Akitoshi Yoshida19, Takashi Wada20, Yoshinori Inoue21, Haruhito A Uchida22, Hideki Ota23, Takahiro Okazaki24, Mitsuho Onimaru25, Tamihiro Kawakami26, Reiko Kinouchi27,28, Atsushi Kurata29, Hisanori Kosuge30, Ken-Ei Sada31, Kunihiro Shigematsu32, Eiichi Suematsu33, Eijun Sueyoshi34, Takahiko Sugihara35, Hitoshi Sugiyama36, Mitsuhiro Takeno37, Naoto Tamura38, Michi Tsutsumino39, Hiroaki Dobashi40, Yoshikazu Nakaoka41, Kenji Nagasaka42, Yasuhiro Maejima43, Hajime Yoshifuji44, Yoshiko Watanabe45, Shoichi Ozaki46, Takeshi Kimura47, Hiroshi Shigematsu48, Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara49, Toyoaki Murohara50, Shin-Ichi Momomura51. 1. Sakakibara Heart Institute. 2. Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University. 3. Department of Rheumatology and Nephrology, Kyorin University School of Medicine. 4. Internal Medicine, Kichijoji Asahi Hospital. 5. Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University. 6. Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University. 7. Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine. 8. Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo Koshigaya Hospital. 9. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine. 10. Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. 11. Department of Pathology, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center. 12. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School. 13. Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine. 14. Department of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University. 15. Department of Hemovascular Medicine and Artificial Organs, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki. 16. Department of Pathology, Gifu University Hospital. 17. Vascular Center, Sanno Hospital and Sanno Medical Center. 18. Medical Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Seirei Yokohama Hospital. 19. Asahikawa Medical University. 20. Department of Nephrology and Laboratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University. 21. Ambulatory Vascular Surgical Clinic Tokyo. 22. Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 23. Department of Advanced MRI Collaboration Research, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. 24. Vice-Director, Shizuoka Medical Center, National Hospital Organization. 25. Division of Pathophysiological and Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University. 26. Division of Dermatology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University. 27. Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University. 28. Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University. 29. Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University. 30. Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University. 31. Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 32. Department of Vascular Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital. 33. Division of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, National Hospital Organization, Kyushu Medical Center. 34. Department of Radiological Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. 35. Department of Lifetime Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. 36. Department of Human Resource Development of Dialysis Therapy for Kidney Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 37. Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine. 38. Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine. 39. Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University. 40. Division of Hematology, Rheumatology and Respiratory Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University. 41. Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute. 42. Department of Rheumatology, Ome Municipal General Hospital. 43. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. 44. Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University. 45. Frist Department of Physiology, Kawasaki Medical School. 46. Division of Rheumatology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine. 47. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. 48. Clinical Research Center for Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare. 49. Health and Counseling Center, Osaka University. 50. Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. 51. Saitama Medical Center Jichi Medical University.