Matsushita, Kensuke
Hibi, Kiyoshi
Okada, Kozo
Sakamaki, Kentaro
Akiyama, Eiichi
Kimura, Yuichiro
Matsuzawa, Yasushi
Maejima, Nobuhiko
Iwahashi, Noriaki
Tsukahara, Kengo
Kosuge, Masami
Ebina, Toshiaki
Fitzgerald, Peter J.
Honda, Yasuhiro
Tamura, Kouichi
Kimura, Kazuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (grant number JP26461079)
Terumo Corporation
AstraZeneca
GOODMAN
MSD
Article History
Received: 2 July 2018
Accepted: 30 November 2018
First Online: 7 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: KM has received remuneration for lectures from Philips japan and St. Jude Medical Japan. KH has received remuneration for lectures from Daiichi-Sankyo and Boston Scientific Japan; has received research grants from AstraZeneca, MSD, Solve, Biosensors Japan, Teijin Parma, Terumo, Mochida Pharmaceutical, Goodman, Medtronic Japan, and St. Jude Medical Japan. KT has received research grants from AstraZeneca, Ono, Tsumura, Daiichi-Sankyo, Novartis, Astellas, MSD, Pfizer, Research Institute for Production Development, Takeda, Kyowa Hakko Kirin., Chugai Pharmaceutical, Mochida, and Mitsubishi Tanabe. Honoraria from Mochida, Pfizer, Research Institute for Production Development, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma and Kyowa Hakko Kirin. KK has received remuneration for lectures from AstraZeneca, Toa Eiyo, MSD, Bayer and Daiichi-Sankyo; has received research grants from Toa Eiyo, Bayer, MSD, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Eli Lilly Japan, Research Institute for Production Development, Pfizer, Shionogi, Kowa, Daiichi-Sankyo, Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Nihon Boehringer-Ingelheim, Takeda, Otsuka, and Ono. All other authors report no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.