Van Hoang, Dong
Inoue, Yosuke
Fukunaga, Ami
Nakagawa, Tohru
Honda, Toru
Yamamoto, Shuichiro
Okazaki, Hiroko
Yamamoto, Makoto
Miyamoto, Toshiaki
Gommori, Naoki
Kochi, Takeshi
Shirasaka, Taiki
Eguchi, Masafumi
Ogasawara, Takayuki
Yamamoto, Kenya
Konishi, Maki
Katayama, Nobumi
Kabe, Isamu
Dohi, Seitaro
Mizoue, Tetsuya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Industrial Health Foundation, Japan (140202-01, 150903-01, and 170301-01)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI JP16H05251)
National Center for Global Health and Medicine (28-Shi-1206)
Article History
Received: 15 October 2022
Accepted: 30 May 2023
First Online: 16 June 2023
Declarations
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: Prior to data collection at each participating company, we displayed posters explaining the purpose and procedure of the J-ECOH study. We informed workers that their health-related data would be anonymized and provided to the J-ECOH Study and that they should notify their occupational physicians of their disagreement, if any. This opt-out procedure complied with the Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research for observational studies that use existing data. The study protocol with waived informed consent for participation was approved by the ethics committee of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan (approval number: NCGM-G-001140).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.