Shirahama, Shintaro
Kaburaki, Toshikatsu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1132-6148
Takada, Sachiko
Nakahara, Hisae
Tanaka, Rie
Komae, Keiko
Fujino, Yujiro
Kawashima, Hidetoshi
Aihara, Makoto
Funding for this research was provided by:
a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS KAKENHI from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (JP18K09398)
a Grant-in-Aid for Research on Specific Diseases of the Health Sciences Research from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan (H29-nanti-ippan-050)
Article History
Received: 18 June 2019
Revised: 24 October 2019
Accepted: 3 December 2019
First Online: 12 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have 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.
: Opt-out consent was obtained from all patients. This method was used for participant recruitment in the study; information was provided to the potential participant regarding the research and their involvement and where their participation is presumed unless they decline to participate.