Fukushima, Norihide http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1367-4066
Tatsumi, Eisuke
Seguchi, Osamu
Takewa, Yoshiaki
Hamasaki, Toshimitsu
Onda, Kaori
Yamamoto, Haruko
Hayashi, Teruyuki
Fujita, Tomoyuki
Kobayashi, Junjiro
Article History
First Online: 8 June 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (principal investigator Eisuke Tatsumi) and Nipro Corp. (Osaka, Japan) have a joint research agreement. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of results, manuscript preparation, or decision to publish.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.