Mitsuda, Naomi
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Eitoku, Masamitsu
Yamasaki, Keiko
Sakaguchi, Masahiko
Yasumitsu-Lovell, Kahoko
Maeda, Nagamasa
Fujieda, Mikiya
Suganuma, Narufumi
Article History
Received: 12 April 2017
Accepted: 21 June 2018
First Online: 27 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The JECS protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board on Epidemiological Studies of the Ministry of the Environment, and the ethics committees of all participating institutions. The JECS was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and other internationally valid regulations and guidelines for research on human subjects, and with written informed consent from all participants. This study was conducted by analyzing the dataset of the JECS study. The dataset was provided to researchers/research institutions who are members of JECS research group after being anonymized by removing personally identifiable information from the original data.
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