Tsuchiya, Kazuo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5263-3238
Yoshimura, Katsuhiro
Iwashita, Yuji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9085-5429
Inoue, Yusuke http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8075-0597
Ohta, Tsutomu
Watanabe, Hirofumi
Yamada, Hidetaka
Kawase, Akikazu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1736-3874
Tanahashi, Masayuki
Ogawa, Hiroshi
Funai, Kazuhito http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8609-3305
Shinmura, Kazuya http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4963-746X
Suda, Takafumi
Sugimura, Haruhiko http://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.