Hatazawa, Yuri
Yano, Yoshihiko
Okada, Rina
Tanahashi, Toshihito
Hayashi, Hiroki
Hirano, Hirotaka
Minami, Akihiro
Kawano, Yuki
Tanaka, Motofumi
Fukumoto, Takumi
Murakami, Yoshiki
Yoshida, Masaru
Hayashi, Yoshitake
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (16H05826)
Article History
Received: 27 November 2017
Accepted: 26 January 2018
First Online: 2 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol conformed to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Medical and Health Research Ethics Committee (MHREC), Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine (Trial registration: Ref: 1856 [Approved 22 March 2016]). All subjects gave their written informed consent before enrolment.
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