Kon, Soichiro
Konta, Tsuneo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7681-6469
Ichikawa, Kazunobu
Asahi, Koichi
Yamagata, Kunihiro
Fujimoto, Shouichi
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
Narita, Ichiei
Kasahara, Masato
Shibagaki, Yugo
Iseki, Kunitoshi
Moriyama, Toshiki
Kondo, Masahide
Watanabe, Tsuyoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Labor and Welfare of Japan (a Health and Labor Sciences Research Grants for Study on the design of the comprehensive health care system for chronic kidney disease (CKD) based on the individual risk assessment by Specific Health Checkup from the Ministry of Health)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (a Grant-in-Aid for Research on Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (REACH-J), Practical Research Project for Renal Disease)
Article History
Received: 23 March 2017
Accepted: 20 July 2017
First Online: 25 July 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted (Yamagata University, 2008, no. 103) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This study was performed according to Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects enacted by MHLW of Japan ( and ). In the context of the guideline, the investigators shall not necessarily be required to obtain informed consent, but we made public information concerning this study on the web () and ensured the opportunities for the research subjects to refuse utilizing their personal information.