Yamashita, Kohei
Iwatsuki, Masaaki
Yasuda-Yoshihara, Noriko
Morinaga, Takeshi
Nakao, Yosuke
Harada, Kazuto
Eto, Kojiro
Kurashige, Junji
Hiyoshi, Yukiharu
Ishimoto, Takatsugu
Nagai, Yohei
Iwagami, Shiro
Baba, Yoshifumi
Miyamoto, Yuji
Yoshida, Naoya
Ajani, Jaffer A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9946-0629
Baba, Hideo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3474-2550
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16KK0184)
Article History
Received: 13 February 2020
Revised: 22 September 2020
Accepted: 8 October 2020
First Online: 26 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for this study was granted by the ethical committee at Kumamoto University Hospital (Approval numbers: 1037). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki principles.
: Not applicable.
: Individual-level data may be shared on request if all legal and ethical requirements are met. Requests should be sent to the corresponding author.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported in part by the following grant and foundation: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research; Grant no. 16KK0184.