Correction to: Hypertension Research (2009) 32, 462–465; doi:10.1038/hr.2009.53

During typesetting and correction of the above paper, the incorrect affiliation was applied to the first author and published as such. The publishers apologize for this and are now happy to correct this mistake. The correct affiliation is shown below:

Department of Stroke Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan