Sugiyama, Takehiro
Miyo, Kengo
Tsujimoto, Tetsuro
Kominami, Ryota
Ohtsu, Hiroshi
Ohsugi, Mitsuru
Waki, Kayo
Noguchi, Takashi
Ohe, Kazuhiko
Kadowaki, Takashi
Kasuga, Masato
Ueki, Kohjiro
Kajio, Hiroshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
The Grant for National Center for Global Health and Medicine (28A-1205)
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Article History
Received: 30 March 2017
Accepted: 12 June 2017
First Online: 27 June 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Kayo Waki received a clinical research grant from NTT Docomo. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects of 2014 and its revision of 2017 and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Based on the ethical guidelines, an opt-out consent method was chosen. By displaying posters in hospitals or through websites, patients were informed of the objectives of the study, and permission for the investigators to collect PMR data was sought. We offered opportunity for the participants to opt out of participation in the registry by filling out the opt-out form.