Ohbuchi, Katsuya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6756-3260
Sakurai, Nozomu
Kitagawa, Hiroyuki
Sato, Masaru
Suzuki, Hideyuki
Kushida, Hirotaka
Nishi, Akinori
Yamamoto, Masahiro
Hanazaki, Kazuhiro
Arita, Masanori
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP16lk0310021)
Article History
Received: 14 February 2020
Accepted: 15 April 2020
First Online: 25 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Competing financial interests: K.O., Hirotaka K., A.N. and M.Y. are employees of Tsumura & Co. N.S., M.S., H.S. and M.A. have financial interests from Tsumura & Co. relevant to this research. Hiroyuki K and K.H. have no financial conflict of interest. Competing non-financial interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The trial was conducted at the Kochi Medical School in September 2016 and was approved by the Ethical Committee Kochi Medical School. The trial was conducted in accordance with ethical norms prescribed in the Declaration of Helsinki and good clinical practice guidelines.
: All subjects read and signed the informed consent form prior to entering the study.