Urgent Announcement From the Editor-in-Chief
Concerning Article Retraction

December 27, 2012

The editorial team of Circulation Journal has recently confirmed that the manuscript written by Shinzo Kimura et al, Circ J. 2012 Sep 12. [Epub ahead of print], contains a number of serious errors in data analysis.

Shinzo Kimura, Takahisa Sawada, Jun Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroaki Matsubara; for the KYOTO HEART Study Group. Effects of Valsartan on Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in High-Risk Hypertensive Patients with New-Onset Diabetes Mellitus. Circ J. 2012 Sep 12. [Epub ahead of print]

Therefore, we have decided to retract the paper from Circulation Journal.

As Editor-in-Chief, I regret the time that peer reviewers and others spent evaluating this paper.
I sincerely hope and trust that there will be no repetition of this kind in the future.

Hiroaki Shimokawa
Editor-in-Chief
Circulation Journal