Ishikawa, Yuichi
Iwata, Shigeru
Hanami, Kentaro
Nawata, Aya
Zhang, Mingzeng
Yamagata, Kaoru
Hirata, Shintaro
Sakata, Kei
Todoroki, Yasuyuki
Nakano, Kazuhisa
Nakayamada, Shingo
Satoh, Minoru
Tanaka, Yoshiya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (22249025, 16K09928, 15K08790)
The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan (H26-008)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (16ek0410016h0003)
Article History
Received: 19 June 2018
Accepted: 28 September 2018
First Online: 26 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan Ethics Committee. This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board, and the requirement to obtain informed consent was waived.
: Not applicable.
: Kei Sakata is an employee of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma. Shingo Nakayamada has received speaking fees from Bristol-Myers, Sanofi, AbbVie, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Chugai, Pfizer, Takeda (less than US $10,000 each), and research grants from Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Novartis and MSD. Dr Tanaka has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, Eisai, Pfizer, Abbott Immunology, Janssen, Takeda Industrial Pharma, Santen, AstraZeneca, Astellas, Asahi Kasei, UCB, and GlaxoSmithKline (less than US $10,000 each) and from AbbVie and Chugai (more than US $10,000 each) and research grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mitsubishi Tanabe, MSD, Takeda Industrial Pharma, Astellas, Eisai, Chugai, Pfizer, and Daiichi-Sankyo. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.
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