Kon, Soichiro
Konta, Tsuneo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7681-6469
Ichikawa, Kazunobu
Watanabe, Masafumi
Sato, Hidenori
Ishizawa, Kenichi
Ueno, Yoshiyuki
Yamashita, Hidetoshi
Kayama, Takamasa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (a Grant in-Aid from the 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE), Global COE program)
Gout Research Foundation of Japan (a research grant)
Pfizer Japan (academic contribution)
NOVARTIS Foundation (Japan) for the Promotion of Science (a research grant)
Article History
Received: 13 February 2019
Accepted: 12 August 2019
First Online: 3 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest: Honoraria: Konta T (Bayer), Grants received: Konta T (Novartis, Pfizer Inc.).
: 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: Yamagata University, 2006–1) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.