Kachi, Yuko
Hashimoto, Hideki
Eguchi, Hisashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (21119002, 15K08573)
Article History
Received: 24 August 2017
Accepted: 9 July 2018
First Online: 17 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Tokyo (approval no. 3073).
: Participants were informed of the study purpose, their autonomy, confidentiality of the responses and data handling.