Fujiogi, Michimasa
Michihata, Nobuaki
Matsui, Hiroki
Fushimi, Kiyohide
Yasunaga, Hideo
Fujishiro, Jun
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (H29-Policy-Designated-009 and H29-ICT-Genral-004)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (17H04141)
the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (15lk1110001h0001)
Article History
Accepted: 8 May 2018
First Online: 16 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflicts 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. Study approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board at the University of Tokyo.
: The requirement for informed consent was waived for this study because of the anonymous nature of the data.