Ninomiya, Toshiharu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-9032
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Nakaji, Shigeyuki
Maeda, Tetsuya
Yamada, Masahito
Mimura, Masaru
Nakashima, Kenji
Mori, Takaaki
Takebayashi, Minoru
Ohara, Tomoyuki
Hata, Jun
Kokubo, Yoshihiro
Uchida, Kazuhiro
Taki, Yasuyuki
Kumagai, Shuzo
Yonemoto, Koji
Yoshida, Hisako
Muto, Kaori
Momozawa, Yukihide
Akiyama, Masato
Kubo, Michiaki
Ikeda, Manabu
Kanba, Shigenobu
Kiyohara, Yutaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP20dk0207025)
Suntory Holdings Limited
Article History
Received: 13 August 2020
Accepted: 6 October 2020
First Online: 31 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was first approved by the Kyushu University Institutional Review Board and then by the ethics committee of each research institute. We obtained free and written consent from the participants after providing sufficient information about the protocol. When participants could not provide their own consent for any reason (e.g., severe dementia), we obtained consent from a family member or other surrogate who agreed to participate in the study. All the participants were capable of giving consent.
: Not applicable, as the study does not contain personal information.
: Toshiharu Ninomiya received funds from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and Suntory Holdings Limited (Osaka, Japan). The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.