Kim, Hunkyung http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-5477
Kojima, Narumi
Uchida, Ryo
Somekawa, Shinji
Inoue, Naohiko
Kobayashi, Hisamine
Osuka, Yosuke
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ajinomoto Consigned Research Fund
Article History
Received: 24 April 2020
Accepted: 8 September 2020
First Online: 25 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have the following interests: R Uchida, S Somekawa, N Inoue, and H Kobayashi are employed by Ajinomoto Co, Inc., which provided the essential amino acid supplementation. The terms of the arrangement have been reviews and approved by the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology in accordance with its policy on objectivity in research. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. No personnel from Ajinomoto Co, Inc., were involved in the study concept, design, participant selection, intervention design, data collection, data interpretation, or manuscript preparation.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.
: Japan Medical Association Center for Clinical Trials ID: JMA-IIA00378 on August 24, 2018.