Murakami, Minoru https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0435-7106
Aoki, Takuya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8232-2155
Sugiyama, Yoshifumi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8522-6935
Sasaki, Sho
Nishiwaki, Hiroki
Yazawa, Masahiko
Raita, Yoshihiko
Kawarazaki, Hiroo
Shimizu, Hideaki
Nakamura, Yoshihiro
Saka, Yosuke
Matsushima, Masato
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jikei University School of Medicine
Article History
Received: 21 November 2024
Accepted: 11 April 2025
First Online: 8 May 2025
Declarations
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: M. Matsushima received speaker’s honoraria from The Japanese Society of Clinical Nutrition and The Japanese Clinical Nutrition Association. M. Matsushima’s son-in-law worked at IQVIA Services Japan K.K., which is a contract research organization and a contract sales organization. M. Matsushima’s son-in-law works at Syneos Health Clinical K.K., which is a contract research organization and a contract sales organization. No other authors have any financial or proprietary interests in any material discussed in this article.
: The JOINT-KD study was performed in line with the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the institutional review board of each participating facility (approval number of Saku Central Hospital R201709-06).
: The present study complied with the ethical guidelines for human studies and did not involve animal experiments.
: Owing to the retrospective nature of this study, the requirement for written informed consent was waived, and the opt-out method was used.