Sakuma, Kenji
Matsunaga, Shinji
Nomura, Ikuo
Okuya, Makoto
Kishi, Taro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9237-2236
Iwata, Nakao
Article History
Received: 20 December 2017
Accepted: 9 May 2018
First Online: 22 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Drs. Sakuma, Matsunaga, Nomura and Okuya, Kishi, and Iwata declare that they have no direct conflicts of interest relevant to this study. No grant support or other sources of funding were used to conduct this study or prepare this manuscript. Dr. Sakuma has nothing to disclose. Dr. Nomura has received speaker’s honoraria from Meiji, MSD, and Otsuka. Dr. Okuya has received speaker’s honoraria from Meiji. Dr. Matsunaga has received speaker’s honoraria from Daiichi Sankyo, Dainippon Sumitomo, Eisai, Janssen, Meiji, MSD, Novartis, Otsuka, and Tanabe-Mitsubishi and has received a Fujita Health University School of Medicine research grant and a grant-in-aid for Young Scientists (B). Dr. Kishi has received speaker’s honoraria from Daiichi Sankyo, Dainippon Sumitomo, Eisai, Janssen, Otsuka, Meiji, MSD, and Tanabe-Mitsubishi (Yoshitomi) and has received a Health Labour Sciences Research Grant and a Fujita Health University School of Medicine research grant. Dr. Iwata has received speaker’s honoraria from Astellas, Dainippon Sumitomo, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Yoshitomi, Otsuka, Meiji, Shionogi, Novartis, and Pfizer and has had research grants from GlaxoSmithKline, Meiji, and Otsuka.