Positive Association between Circulating CD34-Positive Cells and Urinary Sodium Excretion in Elderly Japanese Men: The Nagasaki Islands Study

Yuji Shimizu^1*, Shimpei Sato¹, Jun Koyamatsu², Hirotomo Yamanashi², Mami Tamai³, Koichiro Kadota¹, Kazuhiko Arima⁴, Hironori Yamasaki⁵, Noboru Takamura⁶ and Takahiro Maeda^1,2

¹Department of Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

²Department of Island and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

³Unit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

⁴Department of Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

⁵Center for Health and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

⁶Department of Global Health, Medicine and welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan