Shimizu, Kimihiro
Kaira, Kyoichi
Higuchi, Tetsuya
Hisada, Takeshi
Yokobori, Takehiko
Oyama, Tetsunari
Asao, Takayuki
Tsushima, Yoshito
Shirabe, Ken
Article History
First Online: 2 December 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: KK has received research grants and a speaker honorarium from Boehringer Ingelheim Company, Ono Pharmaceutical Company, Bristol-Myers Company, and Chugai Pharmaceutical Company. All remaining authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.