About the Authors
- Masashi Kitagawa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masashi Kitagawa, Ken-ei Sada, Norikazu Hinamoto
Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: masa4_n_r@yahoo.co.jp
Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Okayama, Japan
- Ken-ei Sada
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masashi Kitagawa, Ken-ei Sada, Norikazu Hinamoto
Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Okayama, Japan
- Norikazu Hinamoto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masashi Kitagawa, Ken-ei Sada, Norikazu Hinamoto
Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Okayama, Japan
- Miho Kimachi
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
- Yosuke Yamamoto
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
- Yoshihiro Onishi
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute for Health Outcomes and Process Evaluation Research (iHope International), Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
- Shunichi Fukuhara
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
Competing Interests
Shunichi Fukuhara has acted as both a scientific advisor to and received grants from Kyowa Hakko Kirin. The other authors have no potential competing interests to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.