About the Authors

Misuzu Fujita

fujitam@chiba-u.jp

Affiliation Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan

Yasunori Sato

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Sato, Kengo Nagashima, Sho Takahashi

Affiliation Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Global Clinical Research, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan

Kengo Nagashima

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Sato, Kengo Nagashima, Sho Takahashi

Affiliation Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Global Clinical Research, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan

Sho Takahashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasunori Sato, Kengo Nagashima, Sho Takahashi

Affiliation Chiba University Hospital, Clinical Research Center, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan

Akira Hata

Affiliation Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Chiba City, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MF AH. Data curation: MF. Formal analysis: MF YS KN ST. Funding acquisition: MF. Investigation: MF AH. Methodology: MF YS KN ST AH. Project administration: MF. Resources: MF AH. Supervision: AH. Visualization: MF. Writing – original draft: MF AH. Writing – review & editing: MF YS KN ST AH.