Iimuro, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-4555
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Kaneko, Tetsuji
Ohashi, Yasuo
Watanabe, Tsuyoshi
Nitta, Kosaku
Akizawa, Tadao
Matsuo, Seiichi
Imai, Enyu
Makino, Hirofumi
Hishida, Akira
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kyowa Hakko Kirin
Article History
Received: 5 September 2018
Accepted: 18 March 2019
First Online: 9 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: SI and TK received a research support grant from Kyowa Hakko Kirin; KN received a research support grant from Kyowa Hakko Kirin; TA received consultancy and lecture fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin; SM received lecture fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin; HM received speaker honoraria from Kyowa Hakko Kirin. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. This study was supported by research funds with no restriction on publication from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
: 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 and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was not required as this study analyzes previously published data.