Kahyo, Tomoaki
Yamada, Hidetaka
Tao, Hong
Kurabe, Nobuya
Sugimura, Haruhiko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0779-3088
Funding for this research was provided by:
Smoking Research Foundation
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (No. 15K08397, S-001)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (26-A-8)
Article History
Received: 16 November 2016
Accepted: 20 June 2017
First Online: 27 June 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from all volunteers. The design of this study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine and Iwata City Hospital (G-260-4).
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