Kuroda, Hiroyuki
Goto, Atsushi
Kawakami, Chihiro
Yamamoto, Kouji
Ito, Shuichi
Kamijima, Michihiro
Yamazaki, Shin
Ohya, Yukihiro
Kishi, Reiko
Yaegashi, Nobuo
Hashimoto, Koichi
Yamagata, Zentaro
Inadera, Hidekuni
Nakayama, Takeo
Iso, Hiroyasu
Shima, Masayuki
Kurozawa, Youichi
Suganuma, Narufumi
Kusuhara, Koichi
Katoh, Takahiko
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Article History
Received: 13 October 2021
Accepted: 4 January 2022
First Online: 17 January 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for our study was granted by the Institutional Review Board of Yokohama City University (approval number: B200900053, approved on 16 October 2020). The JECS protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ministry of the Environment’s Institutional Review Board on Epidemiological Studies (Ethical Number: No.100910001) and the Ethics Committees of all participating institutions (listed in Acknowledgement). Both our study and the JECS were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.