Mori, Masanori
Morita, Tatsuya
Matsuda, Yoshinobu
Yamada, Hirohide
Kaneishi, Keisuke
Matsumoto, Yoshihisa
Matsuo, Naoki
Odagiri, Takuya
Aruga, Etsuko
Watanabe, Hiroaki
Tatara, Ryohei
Sakurai, Hiroki
Kimura, Akira
Katayama, Hideki
Suga, Akihiko
Nishi, Tomohiro
Shirado, Akemi Naito
Watanabe, Toshio
Kuchiba, Aya
Yamaguchi, Takuhiro
Iwase, Satoru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Health Labour Sciences Research Grant)
Article History
Received: 23 June 2019
Accepted: 16 September 2019
First Online: 19 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration and the ethical guidelines for epidemiological research presented by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) of all participating institutions. The IRBs waived the requirement for obtaining written informed consent in this observational study based on the aforementioned ethical guidelines.
: AK received honoraria for speaking at symposia by Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.