About the Authors

Masaya Saito

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Yasushi Seo

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Yoshihiko Yano

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Kenji Momose

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Hirotaka Hirano

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Masaru Yoshida

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, Division of Metabolomics Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Takeshi Azuma

azumat@med.kobe-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the study: MS. Recruited patients and collected data: MS. Had full access to all data, and contributed to data analysis and interpretation: MS YS YY KM HH MY TA. Contributed to materials of indirect calorimetry: YS MY TA. Wrote the paper: MS YS YY.