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Screening Cutoff Values for the Detection of Aldosterone Producing Adenoma by LC-MS/MS
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and a Nobel Non-competitive CLEIA
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Yoshikiyo Ono,
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Yuta Tezuka,
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Kei Omata,
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Ryo Morimoto,
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Yuto Yamazaki,
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Sota Oguro,
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Kei Takase,
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Akihiro Ito,
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Tatsunari Yoshimi,
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Satoshi Kojima,
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Sadayoshi Ito,
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Hironobu
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Sasano,
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Takashi Suzuki,
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Tetsuhiro Tanaka
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, Hideki Katagiri,
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and Fumitoshi Satoh
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Department of Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1
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Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan
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Division of Nephrology, Rheumatology and Endocrinology, Tohoku University Graduate
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School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan
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Department of Pathology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi,
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Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan
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Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1
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Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan
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Department of Urology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi,
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Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan
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Fujirebio, Inc., 51, Komiya-machi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0031, Japan
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Key words: primary aldosteronism, aldosterone, assay, screening, diagnosis
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Conflicts of Interest:
T.K., T.S. and F.S. received support through grants from the Ministry of
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Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan (No. 23FC1041). The remaining authors have nothing to
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disclose.
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