About the Authors

Satoshi Sakai

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Keiji Tanimoto

in1120@osaka-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Ayumi Imbe

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Yuiko Inaba

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Kanako Shishikura

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Yoshimi Tanimoto

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Takahisa Ushiroyama

Affiliation Health Science Clinic, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-1121, Japan

Jungo Terasaki

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Toshiaki Hanafusa

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (I), Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KT. Data curation: SS. Formal analysis: SS KT YT. Funding acquisition: KT. Investigation: SS KT AI YI KS TU. Project administration: KT. Supervision: JT TH. Writing – original draft: SS. Writing – review & editing: KT YT JT TH.