Kitabata, Hironori
Kubo, Takashi
Shiono, Yasutsugu
Shimamura, Kunihiro
Ino, Yasushi
Tanimoto, Takashi
Hayashi, Yasushi
Komukai, Kenichi
Sougawa, Hiromichi
Kimura, Keizo
Gohda, Masahiro
Hashizume, Toshikazu
Obana, Masahiro
Maeda, Kazuisa
Yamaguchi, Junichi
Akasaka, Takashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Research Foundation for Healthy Aging (Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 5 December 2018
Accepted: 7 January 2019
First Online: 28 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Wakayama Medical University Institutional Review Board approved the final version of the protocol (version 1.1) prior to the start of the study (approval number: 2234). This study was registered on the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN000031526). Written informed consent will be obtained from all participants in the study.
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