Yamaguchi, Tomofumi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-8586
Moriya, Kouhei
Tanabe, Shigeo
Kondo, Kunitsugu
Otaka, Yohei
Tanaka, Satoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16H03201, 18K17723)
Article History
Received: 6 June 2019
Accepted: 14 February 2020
First Online: 19 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Tokyo Bay Rehabilitation Hospital (Ref:78–2), Japan, and conformed to the standards set by the latest revision of the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants provided written informed consent prior to participation.
: All participants provided written informed consent for aggregate, de-identified study results to be published in peer-reviewed journals and to be presented at conferences or other professional forums.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.