Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief In-Kyung Jeong Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Associate Editors Junghyun Noh Inje University, Goyang, Korea Ji A Seo Korea University, Ansan, Korea Hye Soon Kim Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea Tae Seo Sohn The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea Hyun Jin Kim Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea Hye Jin Yoo Korea University, Seoul, Korea Byung-Wan Lee Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Hail Kim KAIST, Daejeon, Korea Honorary Editors Sei Hyun Baik Korea University, Seoul, Korea Kyong Soo Park Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Robert A. Harris Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA Yutaka Seino Kansai Electric Power Hospital, Osaka, Japan Jean Claude Mbanya University of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon Hyun Shik Son The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu-si, Korea Boyd E. Metzger Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA Kyu Chang Won Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea Markku Laakso University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland Paul Zimmet Monash University, Victoria, Australia Editorial Members Philip Barter The Heart Research Institute, Sydney, Australia Sang Yong Kim Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea Per-Olof Berggren Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Young-Bum Kim Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Jennie C. Brand-Miller University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Seung-Hyun Ko The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea Sung Hee Choi Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Itaru Kojima Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan Sookja K. Chung Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China Bo Kyung Koo Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Gary W. Cline Yale University, New Haven, USA Jun Sung Moon Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea Vaughn DeCoster Fukui University, Fayetteville, USA Kishio Nanjo Wakayama University of Medical Science, Wakayama, Japan Jozef Dulak Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland John Nolan CEO and Head, Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark Weiping Han National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Tae Jung Oh Seoul National University, Seongnam, Korea David L. Horwitz Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute, Milpitas, USA Elizabeth Paz Pacheco University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines Nigishi Hotta Chubu Rusai Hospital, Nagoya, Japan Vincent Poitout Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Sun Huh Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea Massimo Porta University of Turin corso, Turin, Italy Kyu Yeon Hur Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea Marian Rewers University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, USA You-Cheol Hwang Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Wayne H-H Sheu National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan Nobuya Inagaki Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Hei Sook Sul University of California, Berkeley, USA Ja Young Jeon Ajou University, Suwon, Korea Zilin Sun Peking University People’s Hospital, Nanjing, China Takashi Kadowaki University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Gary Sweeney York University, Ontario, Canada Bo-Yeon Kim Soonchunhyang University, Bucheon, Korea. Tadashi Yamashita Hokkaido University, Saitama, Japan Dae Jung Kim Ajou University, Suwon, Korea Dongwon Yi Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea Jin Hwa Kim Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea Jang Hyun Youn University of Southern California Kyung-Soo Kim Cha University, Seongnam, Korea Sung Hoon Yu Hanyang University, Guri, Korea Mi-kyung Kim Inje University, Busan, Korea Statistical Advisors Hongyup Ahn Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea Yong-Gyu Park The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea Hyeon Chang Kim Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Mira Park Eulji University, Daejeon, Korea Seonwoo Kim Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, Korea Yong-Moon Park University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA Su Jin Jeong Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea Hyeon Woo Yim The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea Manuscript Editor Young Ji Choi Infolumi Co., Seongnam, Korea.