Tsuchiya, Kazuo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5263-3238
Yoshimura, Katsuhiro
Iwashita, Yuji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9085-5429
Inoue, Yusuke https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8075-0597
Ohta, Tsutomu
Watanabe, Hirofumi
Yamada, Hidetaka
Kawase, Akikazu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1736-3874
Tanahashi, Masayuki
Ogawa, Hiroshi
Funai, Kazuhito https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8609-3305
Shinmura, Kazuya https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4963-746X
Suda, Takafumi
Sugimura, Haruhiko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0779-3088
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP22659072, JP24659161, JP16K15256)
Smoking Research Foundation (2019T009)
Article History
Received: 12 September 2021
Revised: 3 January 2022
Accepted: 24 February 2022
First Online: 22 March 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committees of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (20-011) and Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital and was carried out in accordance with approved guidelines. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. All analyses were conducted in compliance with the ethical standards according to the Helsinki Declaration.
: Not applicable.