Watanabe, Kentaro
Fujii, Hideki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7610-1068
Kono, Keiji
Goto, Shunsuke
Nishi, Shinichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kidney Foundation, Japan (JKFB11-30)
Article History
Received: 5 September 2019
Accepted: 16 January 2020
First Online: 30 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Our study was submitted to and approved by Kobe University Clinical Research Ethical Committee (permission number: 230019). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.
: H.F. and S.N. have received a speaker honorarium from Bayer Yakuhin Co. The other authors declare that they have no other conflicts of interest.