Takeda, Yoshiyua,b; Yoneda, Takashia; Demura, Masashia; Furukawa, Kenjia; Miyamori, Isamuc; Mabuchi, Hiroshia
aSecond Department of Internal Medicine, bDepartment of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan and cThird Department of Internal Medicine, Fukui Medical School, Fukui, Japan.
Sponsorship: This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan and Yamanouchi Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders.
Correspondence and requests for reprints to Yoshiyu Takeda, Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 13–1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920, Japan. Tel: + 81 76 265 2252; fax: +81 76 234 4251; e-mail: [email protected]