Sato, Yuji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1272-4108
Fujimoto, Shouichi
Konta, Tsuneo
Iseki, Kunitoshi
Moriyama, Toshiki
Yamagata, Kunihiro
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
Narita, Ichiei
Kondo, Masahide
Kasahara, Masato
Shibagaki, Yugo
Asahi, Koichi
Watanabe, Tsuyoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Article History
Received: 6 July 2017
Accepted: 7 August 2017
First Online: 16 August 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethics Committees and Institutional Review Boards at the main institutes and each participating center approved the trial (approval numbers: 1485 and 2771 in Fukushima Medical University). This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by the authors.
: Informed consent was not obtained from each participant because all data were anonymized before analysis.