About the Authors

Takashi Inomata

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Satoshi Konno

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

satkonno@med.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Katsura Nagai

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Masaru Suzuki

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Masaharu Nishimura

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.