Takahara, Mitsuyoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5105-041X
Katakami, Naoto
Shiraiwa, Toshihiko
Abe, Katsushige
Ayame, Hideo
Ishimaru, Yasuaki
Iwamoto, Masahiro
Shimizu, Mitsuo
Tomonaga, Osamu
Yokoyama, Hiroki
Matsuoka, Taka-aki
Shimomura, Iichiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Diabetes Society
Article History
Received: 10 July 2018
Accepted: 14 October 2018
First Online: 23 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict 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.
: According to the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects in Japan, written informed consent from the participants was substituted for by their oral consent after notification of relevant information on the study and ensured opportunities for refusal, on the ground of the study’s intervention- and invasiveness-free nature.