About the Authors
- Kazutoshi Fujibayashi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kazutoshi Fujibayashi, Toshiaki Gunji
* E-mail: kfujiba@juntendo.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
- Toshiaki Gunji
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kazutoshi Fujibayashi, Toshiaki Gunji
Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Hirohide Yokokawa
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
- Toshio Naito
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Affiliation Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
- Noriko Sasabe
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Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Mitsue Okumura
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Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Kimiko Iijima
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Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Katsuhiko Shibuya
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Affiliation Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
- Teruhiko Hisaoka
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Affiliation Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroshi Fukuda
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of General Medicine, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors of this manuscript have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: KF: Employment, NTT Medical Center Tokyo. TG: Employment, NTT Medical Center Tokyo. NS: Employment, NTT Medical Center Tokyo. MO: Employment, NTT Medical Center Tokyo. KI: Employment, NTT Medical Center Tokyo. This does not alter the author's adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KF TG HY TN TH HF. Performed the experiments: KF TG NS MO KI. Analyzed the data: KF TG HY KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF TG NS MO KI. Wrote the paper: KF TG HY.