About the Authors
- Nagako Kudo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nagako Kudo, Hirohide Yokokawa
Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Tokorozawa Medical Clinic, Tokorozawa City, Saitama, Japan
- Hirohide Yokokawa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nagako Kudo, Hirohide Yokokawa
* E-mail: hyokoka@juntendo.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroshi Fukuda
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Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Hironobu Sanada
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Affiliations Division of Health Science Research, Fukushima Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, Aizubange Town, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Tumor and Host Bioscience, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
- Yuichi Miwa
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Affiliation Department of Health Screening, Tokyo Health Service Association, Tokyo, Japan
- Teruhiko Hisaoka
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Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroshi Isonuma
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Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NK HY HF HS YM TH HI. Performed the experiments: NK HY YM. Analyzed the data: HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK HY HF HS YM TH HI. Wrote the paper: NK HY.