Editors and Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief:
Toyoaki Murohara
Senior Advisory Editor / Immediate-Past Editor-in-Chief:
Hiroaki Shimokawa
Committee Members / Associate Editors:
Takashi Akasaka
Masaaki Ito
Koichi Node
Wataru Shimizu
Associate Editors:
Tetsuya Amano
Mariko Harada-Shiba
Hiroyasu Iso
Masafumi Kitakaze
Shigeki Morita
Yasushi Sakata
Akira Sezai
Yasuchika Takeishi
Takeshi Yamashita
Statistical Consulting Editor:
Kunihiro Matsushita
Executive Editor:
Mikito Takefuji
Keiichi Fukuda
Kazuomi Kario
Nobuyuki Ohte
Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Yujiro Asada
Takanori Ikeda
Yasuki Kihara
Takanari Kitazono
Yutaka Otsuji
Hajime Sakuma
Isao Shiraishi
Masakazu Yamagishi
Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara
Shinichiro Ueda
Ken-ichi Hirata
Tohru Minamino
Minoru Ono
Kensuke Egashira
Masaharu Ishihara
Takeshi Kimura
Kimihiro Komori
Yoshihiko Saito
Masataka Sata
Hiroshi Tada
Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Hitoshi Yokoyama
International Associate Editors:
Masanori Aikawa (USA)
Nazzareno Galie (Italy)
Xin L. Ma (USA)
Takumi Yamada (USA)
Editorial Board:
Takeshi Adachi
Kazutaka Aonuma
Satoshi Fujii
Kentaro Hayashida
Ichiro Hisatome
Teruo Inoue
Hideo Izawa
Kazuo Kimura
Yoshio Kobayashi
Masahiko Kurabayashi
Tetsuo Minamino
Shunichi Miyazaki
Motoyuki Nakamura
Fumiyuki Otsuka
Yasuhiko Sakata
Ichiro Shiojima
Masato Tsutsui
Masafumi Yano
Michihiro Yoshimura
International Advisory Board:
Bradford C. Berk (USA)
Anthony N. DeMaria (USA)
James K. Liao (USA)
Douglas W. Losordo (USA)
Jagat Narula (USA)
Fausto J. Pinto (Portugal)
William C. Sessa (USA)
Alvaro Alonso (USA)
Hyo-Soo Kim (Korea)
Junichi Sadoshima (USA)
Yoshihiro Akashi
Tohru Asai
Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Jitsuo Higaki
Tomomi Ide
Hideki Ishii
Kouji Kajinami
Koichiro Kinugawa
Masami Kosuge
Koichiro Kuwahara
Shinya Minatoguchi
Yoshihiro Morino
Mitsuru Ohishi
Noriyuki Ouchi
Kimio Satoh
Isao Taguchi
Takafumi Ueno
Satoshi Yasuda
Hideaki Yoshino
Dominick J. Angiolillo (USA)
Gou Young Koh (Korea)
Frank Sellke (USA)
Hiroshi Akazawa
Yasuko Bando
Nobuhisa Hagiwara
Atsushi Hirayama
Yuji Ikari
Nobukazu Ishizaka
Masatoshi Kawana
Kazuo Kitamura
Isao Kubota
Koji Maemura
Tetsuji Miura
Ryuichi Morishita
Yusuke Ohya
Jun-ichi Oyama
Yoshiki Sawa
Naohiko Takahashi
Toyotaka Yada
Hideo Yasukawa
Minoru Yoshiyama
Roberto Bolli (USA)
Valentin Fuster (USA)
Peter Libby (USA)
Thomas F. Lüscher (Switzerland)
Stanley Nattel (Canada)
Ton J. Rabelink (Netherlands)
Paul M. Vanhoutte (China)
Junya Ako
Hiroyuki Daida
Naoyuki Hasebe
Takafumi Hiro
Takayuki Inomata
Hiroshi Ito
Shokei Kim-Mitsuyama
Hiroaki Kitaoka
Kiyotaka Kugiyama
Tohru Masuyama
Takashi Miyauchi
Sadako Motoyama
Koh Ono
Yukio Ozaki
Nobuyuki Shiba
Kazuaki Tanabe
Shizuya Yamashita
Tsutomu Yoshikawa
John C. Burnett (USA)
Michel Komajda (France)
Joseph Loscalzo (USA)
Eduardo Marban (USA)
Byung-Hee Oh (Korea)
Michael D. Schneider (UK)
Kenneth Walsh (USA)
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