Maruta, Yuichi
Hasegawa, Takeshi
Yamakoshi, Etsuko
Nishiwaki, Hiroki
Koiwa, Fumihiko
Imai, Enyu
Hishida, Akira
Article History
Received: 4 February 2018
Accepted: 7 August 2018
First Online: 24 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest. Financial disclosure: TH has consulted for and received lecture fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin; and FK has received speaker honoraria and a support grant from Kyowa Hakko Kirin. The other authors have nothing to declare.
: 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 (IRB approval number 2007578 in Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration as amended in 2000.