Yamamoto, Tae http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5101-9973
Nakayama, Masaaki
Miyazaki, Mariko
Sato, Hiroshi
Matsushima, Masato
Sato, Toshinobu
Ito, Sadayoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPD KAKENHI (15K08065)
Article History
Received: 24 December 2019
Accepted: 15 June 2020
First Online: 30 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Tohoku University School of Medicine (approval number 2006–10, ExternalRef removed), and of the respective participating hospitals. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.