Sadatsuki, Ryo
Ishijima, Muneaki
Kaneko, Haruka
Liu, Lizu
Futami, Ippei
Hada, Shinnosuke
Kinoshita, Mayuko
Kubota, Mitsuaki
Aoki, Takako
Takazawa, Yuji
Ikeda, Hiroshi
Okada, Yasunori
Kaneko, Kazuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (15K10494, 16H05454, 18K09082, 15K20019, 18K09083)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
Article History
Received: 24 February 2018
Accepted: 13 August 2018
First Online: 5 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All 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. The study protocol, which complied with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki, was approved by the Ethical Committee Review Board at Juntendo University (approval number: 15-111). Since the studies with the patients with knee OA were categorized as a retrospective study, the Ethical Committee Review Board waived the requirement for patient informed consent for participation because of the anonymous nature of the data.