About the Authors

Makiko Orita

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Naomi Hayashida

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Yasuyuki Taira

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Nagasaki Prefectural Office, Nagasaki, Japan

Yoshiko Fukushima

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki, Japan

Juichi Ide

Affiliation Kawauchi Municipal Government, Fukushima, Japan

Yuuko Endo

Affiliation Kawauchi Municipal Government, Fukushima, Japan

Takashi Kudo

Affiliation Department of Radioisotope Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Shunichi Yamashita

Affiliation Department of Disaster Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Noboru Takamura

takamura@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO YF NH. Performed the experiments: MO JI YE NT. Analyzed the data: MO YT NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO NT. Wrote the paper: MO YF TK SY NT.