Tsuchiya, Masahiro
Tsuchiya, Shinobu
Momma, Haruki
Ikeda, Ryoukichi
Suzuki, Jun
Nagatomi, Ryoichi
Yaegashi, Nobuo
Arima, Takahiro
Igarashi, Kaoru
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Kamijima, Michihiro
Yamazaki, Shin
Ohya, Yukihiro
Kishi, Reiko
Hashimoto, Koichi
Mori, Chisato
Ito, Shuichi
Yamagata, Zentaro
Inadera, Hidekuni
Nakayama, Takeo
Sobue, Tomotaka
Shima, Masayuki
Nakamura, Hiroshige
Suganuma, Narufumi
Kusuhara, Koichi
Katoh, Takahiko
Article History
Accepted: 4 May 2023
First Online: 17 May 2023
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the World Medical Association's Helsinki Declaration. The JECS protocol has been published elsewhere and was approved by the Ministry of the Environment’s Institutional Review Board on Epidemiological Studies (No. 100 406 001) and the Ethics Committees of all participating institutions. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The present study was conducted as a part of the JECS and used anonymized data; hence, additional approvals from the ethics committees were not required.
: The authors declare no competing interests.