Erratum to: Diabetol Int DOI 10.1007/s13340-012-0073-z

Errors appeared in the above-cited article. The Acknowledgment and Appendix should read as follows:

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by a grant from the Japan Diabetes Foundation. We would like to thank Novo Nordisk Pharma Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) for their support in providing the software system ‘CoDiC’.

Appendix

The following members of JDDM participated in this study: Dr. Hiromichi Sugiyama (Sugiyama Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Mariko Oishi (Oishi Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Fuminobu Okuguchi (Okuguchi Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Yoshio Kurihara (Kurihara Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Naoki Manda (Manda Memorial Hospital); Dr. Mikihiko Kudo (Kudo Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Masahiko Takai (Takai Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Nobuyuki Abe (Abe Clinic); Dr. Hidekatsu Sugimoto (Sugimoto Clinic); Dr. Hiroshi Fujiya (Fujiya Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Koichi Iwasaki (Iwasaki Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Yoshiyuki Hattori (Hattori Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Hiroshi Takamura (Takamura Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Hideo Sasaki (Niigata Medical Center); Dr. Gendai Lee (Lee Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Fumihiko Dake (Hokusei Hospital); Dr. Yoshihide Fukumoto (Fukumoto Clinic); Dr. Hiroshi Hayashi (Matsusaka Central Hospital); Dr. Noriharu Yagi (Yagi Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Madoka Taguchi (Toshiba Hospital); Dr. Yasuko Chiba (Nagasaki Hospital); Dr. Takeshi Osonoi (Naka Memorial Clinic); Dr. Hiroshi Takeda (Takeda Clinic); Dr. Kiyokazu Matoba (Matoba Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Akira Tsuruoka (Maebara Clinic); Dr. Akira Kawara (Kawara Clinic); Dr. Masato Takaki (Takaki Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Masae Minami (Minami Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Akira Okada (Okada Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Nobuichi Kuribayashi (Misaki Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Atsuyoshi Yuhara (Yuhara Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Morifumi Yanagisawa (Satsuki Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Katsutoshi Komori (Odori Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Kotaro Iemitsu (Konandai Iemitsu Clinic); Dr. Kazumasa Chikamori (Kochi Takasu Hospital); Dr. Takako Wada (Toyo Kouhan Clinic); Dr. Sumio Kato (Kato Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Keiko Arai (Arai Clinic); Dr. Kazuhiro Miyazawa (Miyazawa Clinic); Dr. Akira Kanamori (Kanamori Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Kokichi Tanaka (Tanaka Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Ikuro Matsuba (Matsuba Clinic); Dr. Osamu Tomonaga (Tomonaga Clinic); Dr. Shin Nakamura (Nakamura Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Shigetake Kou (Kou Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Yoshio Kaku (Ashiya Central Hospital); Dr. Makoto Nakazono (Nakazono Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Tomohiro Iizumi (Iizumi Internal Medicine Clinic); Dr. Takashi Ajihara (Ajihara Clinic); and Dr. Takashi Miwa (Tokyo Medical University).