About the Authors
- Masaya Saito
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
- Yasushi Seo
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
- Yoshihiko Yano
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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
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
- Hirotaka Hirano
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
- Masaru Yoshida
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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
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* E-mail: 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.