Correction to: Hypertension Research (2017) 70; 658–664; doi:10.1038/hr.2016.187; published online 26 January 2017

Since the publication of this paper, the following errors have been noticed.

There was an error in the author list.

There was an error in Table 1 alignment.

The above errors have been rectified and the corrected article appears in the issue together with this erratum.

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.