Okamura, Takuro
Hashimoto, Yoshitaka
Hamaguchi, Masahide
Obora, Akihiro
Kojima, Takao
Fukui, Michiaki
Article History
Received: 13 December 2020
Accepted: 1 April 2021
First Online: 17 May 2021
Declarations
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: The ethics committee approved the current version of the NAGALA study (IRB Number: 2018-09-01). The study design was opt-out sampling. Participants who underwent health checkups at the Asahi University Hospital were contacted to volunteer to take part in this research. Subjects were excluded only if unwilling to participate. This study was approved by Asahi University Hospital Ethics Committee and was conducted in accordance with Declaration of Helsinki, and informed consent was obtained from all patients.
: Not applicable.
: Y. Hashimoto received grants from Asahi Kasei Corporation outside the submitted work. M. Fukui received grants from AstraZeneca plc, Astellas Pharma Inc., Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd., Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd., Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., MSD K.K., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp., Novo Nordisk Pharma Ltd., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd., Sanofi K.K., Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., outside the submitted work. The sponsors were not involved in the study design; in the collection, analysis, interpretation of data; in the writing of this manuscript; or in the decision to submit the article for publication. The authors, their immediate families, and any research foundations with which they are affiliated have not received any financial payments or other benefits from any commercial entity related to the subject of this article. The authors declare that although they are affiliated with a department that is supported financially by pharmaceutical company, the authors received no current funding for this study, and this does not alter their adherence to all the journal policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have nothing to disclose.