Imai, Norio
Endo, Naoto
Shobugawa, Yugo
Oinuma, Takeo
Takahashi, Yasuhito
Suzuki, Kazuaki
Ishikawa, Yuya
Makino, Tatsuo
Suzuki, Hayato
Miyasaka, Dai
Sakuma, Mayumi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Osteoporosis Foundation (JP16-O-C1)
Article History
Received: 1 November 2017
Accepted: 30 May 2018
First Online: 28 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have no conflicts 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. The ethics review board of Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences (No. 1985) approved the conduct of this study. The need for informed consent was waived given the retrospective nature of the study.