Yoshii, Keita
Nishiura, Hiroshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0941-8537
Inoue, Kaoru
Yamaguchi, Takayuki
Hirose, Akihiko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (Cabinet Office Research for Assessment of the Effect of Food on Human Health, Japan (ID: 1801, PI: Akihiko Hirose))
Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (Cabinet Office Research for Assessment of the Effect of Food on Human Health, Japan (ID: 1907, PI: Hiroshi Nishiura))
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP18fk0108050)
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JPMJCR1413)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H04701, 17H05808, 18H04895, and 19H01074)
Smoking Research Foundation (NA)
Article History
Received: 18 December 2019
Accepted: 14 July 2020
First Online: 5 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present study examined publicly available experimental data and was primarily a computer-based simulation study. As such, the datasets employed in this study did not require ethical approval.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that co-author H. Nishiura is the Editor-in-Chief of <i>Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling</i>. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the journal’s policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.