Katayama, Hiroshi
Tsuburaya, Akira
Mizusawa, Junki
Nakamura, Kenichi
Katai, Hitoshi
Imamura, Hiroshi
Nashimoto, Atsushi
Fukushima, Norimasa
Sano, Takeshi
Sasako, Mitsuru
Article History
Received: 13 March 2019
Accepted: 20 June 2019
First Online: 1 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Hiroshi Katayama reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Johnson & Johnson, outside the submitted work. Akira Tsuburaya reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study. Junki Mizusawa reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study. Kenichi Nakamura reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Merck, personal fees from Chugai, personal fees from Bayer, outside the submitted work. Hitoshi Katai reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Covidien, personal fees from Taiho, outside the submitted work. Hiroshi Imamura reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study. Atsushi Nashimoto reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study. Norimasa Fukushima reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study. Takeshi Sano reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Taiho Pharma, personal fees from Chugai Pharma, personal fees from Ono Pharma, personal fees from Eli Lilly, personal fees from MSD, personal fees from Yakult, personal fees from Daiichi-Sankyo, outside the submitted work. Mitsuru Sasako reports grants from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Lilly, personal fees from Ono, personal fees from Taiho, personal fees from Chugai, personal fees from Yakult, outside the submitted work.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of Helsinki declaration and its later amendments and with Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research.
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