Shiba, Shunsuke
Chu, Po-sung
Nakamoto, Nobuhiro
Yamataka, Karin
Taniki, Nobuhito
Ojiro, Keisuke
Yamaguchi, Akihiro
Morikawa, Rei
Yoshida, Aya
Ikura, Akihiko
Ebinuma, Hirotoshi
Saito, Hidetsugu
Kanai, Takanori
Article History
Received: 25 June 2019
Accepted: 24 February 2020
First Online: 5 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was specifically approved before its start by the institutional review board of the Keio University School of Medicine (No. 20150267) in accordance with the guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki (2008 revision). Recruited study subjects were provided with written informative study materials during consent interview, and oral informed consent was recorded with formal documentation in the medical records, which included study participation and analysis of clinical data. Because of the observational nature of study and the non-invasiveness of body fluid monitoring using BIA, and the institutional review board approved the use of oral consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.