Shimizu, Nobuyuki
Oki, Eiji
Tanizawa, Yutaka
Suzuki, Yutaka
Aikou, Susumu
Kunisaki, Chikara
Tsuchiya, Takashi
Fukushima, Ryoji
Doki, Yuichiro
Natsugoe, Shoji
Nishida, Yasunori
Morita, Masaru
Hirabayashi, Naoki
Hatao, Fumihiko
Takahashi, Ikuo
Choda, Yasuhiro
Iwasaki, Yoshiaki
Seto, Yasuyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
EN Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Article History
Received: 7 February 2018
Accepted: 5 April 2018
First Online: 2 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was conducted as a multicenter, randomized comparative study in compliance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, according to the Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Research (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ministerial Notification no. 415), after approval of the ethics committees of the 16 participating facilities. The protocol for this research project was approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the University of Tokyo hospital, Approval no. P2013026-11X. Informed consent was obtained from the subject(s) and/or guardian(s). This study is registered at the Clinical Trials Registry in the University Hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN) (UMIN000014042).
: We declare no conflicts of interests for this article.