Yamada, Kentaro
Satoh, Shigenobu
Hashizume, Hiroshi
Yoshimura, Noriko
Kagotani, Ryohei
Ishimoto, Yuyu
Abe, Yuichiro
Toyoda, Hiromitsu
Terai, Hidetomi
Masuda, Takeshi
Muraki, Shigeyuki
Nakamura, Hiroaki
Yoshida, Munehito
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan
Japan Osteoporosis Society
Research aid from the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
A Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Wakayama Medical Award for Young Researchers
Article History
Received: 5 August 2017
Accepted: 29 December 2017
First Online: 11 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B20390182, B23390357, B26860419, C20591737, C20591774, and C26462249), for Young Scientists (A18689031), and for Exploratory Research (19659305) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; H17-Men-eki-009, H18-Choujyu-037, and H20-Choujyu-009 from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Research Aid from the Japanese Orthopaedic Association; Grants from the Japanese Orthopaedics and Traumatology Foundation, Inc. (nos. 166 and 256); and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C22591639) from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. The sponsors had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. Funding was provided by the Japan Osteoporosis Society and Wakayama Medical Award for Young Researchers.
: 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 in the Wajokai Eniwa Hospital and Wakayama Medical University.