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The association of conventionally medicated systolic and diastolic blood pressure level and mortality from cardiovascular disease: is the lower the better in high stroke population?

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Acknowledgements

This article was supported by young investigator award of Kishimoto foundation grant. We thank our colleagues from Osaka University Center of Medical Data Science, Advanced Clinical Epidemiology Investigator's Research Project for providing theirinsight and expertise for our research. This article was supported by Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Grant. The JACC Study has been supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan (61010076, 62010074, 63010074, 1010068, 2151065, 3151064, 4151063, 5151069, 6279102, and 11181101). The authors express their appreciation to Dr. Kunio Aoki, Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University School of Medicine and former chairman of the JACC Study Group, and also to by guest on May 18, 2011 aje.oxfordjournals.org Downloaded from 178 Iso et al. Am J Epidemiol 2005;161:170–179 Dr. Haruo Sugano, former Director of the Cancer Institute of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, who greatly contributed to initiating the study. They also thank Dr. Aaron R. Folsom, Professor, University of Minnesota, for his valuable scientific suggestions. The present members of the JACC Study Group and their affiliations are as follows: Dr. Akiko Tamakoshi (current chairman), Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine; Dr. Mitsuru Mori, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine; Dr. Yutaka Motohashi, Akita University School of Medicine; Dr. Ichiro Tsuji, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine; Dr. Yosikazu Nakamura, Jichi Medical School; Dr. Hiroyasu Iso, Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tsukuba; Dr. Haruo Mikami, Chiba Cancer Center; Dr. Shuji Hashimoto, Fujita Health University School of Medicine; Dr. Yutaka Inaba, Juntendo University School of Medicine; Dr. Yoshiharu Hoshiyama, Showa University School of Medicine; Dr. Hiroshi Suzuki, Niigata University School of Medicine; Dr. Hiroyuki Shimizu, Gifu University School of Medicine; Dr. Hideaki Toyoshima, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine; Dr. Shinkan Tokudome, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medicine; Dr. Yoshinori Ito, Fujita Health University School of Health Sciences; Dr. Shogo Kikuchi, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine; Dr. Akio Koizumi, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University; Dr. Takashi Kawamura, Kyoto University Center for Student Health; Dr. Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Research Institute for Neurological Diseases and Geriatrics; Dr. Tsuneharu Miki, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; Dr. Chigusa Date, Faculty of Human Environmental Sciences, Mukogawa Women’s University; Dr. Kiyomi Sakata, Wakayama Medical University; Dr. Takayuki Nose, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine; Dr. Norihiko Hayakawa, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University; Dr. Takesumi Yoshimura, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan; Dr. Katsuhiro Fukuda, Kurume University School of Medicine; Dr. Naoyuki Okamoto, Kanagawa Cancer Center; Dr. Hideo Shio, Shiga Medical Center; Dr. Yoshiyuki Ohno, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine; Dr. Tomoyuki Kitagawa, Cancer Institute of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research; Dr. Toshio Kuroki, Gifu University; and Dr. Kazuo Tajima, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute. The past Study Group investigators are listed in reference 22, except for the following seven members (affiliations reflect where they participated in the study): Dr. Takashi Shimamoto, Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tsukuba; Dr. Heizo Tanaka, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University; Dr. Shigeru Hisamichi, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine; Dr. Masahiro Nakao, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; Dr. Takaichiro Suzuki, Research Institute, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases; Dr. Tsutomu Hashimoto, Wakayama Medical University; and Dr. Teruo Ishibashi, Asama General Hospital. We thank Hugh McGonigle, from Edanz Group (www.edanzediting.com/ac), for editing a draft of the manuscript.

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  1. Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Ryoto Sakaniwa, Kokoro Shirai & Hiroyasu Iso

  2. Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Ryoto Sakaniwa & Jasper Tromp

  3. National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Jasper Tromp

  4. Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

    Jasper Tromp

  5. Department of Public Health Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Kazumasa Yamagishi & Hiroyasu Iso

  6. Department of Public Health, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

    Akiko Tamakoshi

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Sakaniwa, R., Tromp, J., Shirai, K. et al. The association of conventionally medicated systolic and diastolic blood pressure level and mortality from cardiovascular disease: is the lower the better in high stroke population?. Clin Res Cardiol 109, 944–948 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-019-01587-8

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