About the Authors

Masayuki Shirasawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoya Fukui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

tofukui@med.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Seiichiro Kusuhara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Shinya Harada

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Noriko Nishinarita

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Hiyoshi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Mikiko Ishihara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Masashi Kasajima

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Satoshi Igawa

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Masanori Yokoba

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, Kitasato University School of Allied Health Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan

Hisashi Mitsufuji

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Fundamental Nursing, Kitasato University School of Nursing, Kanagawa, Japan

Masaru Kubota

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Masato Katagiri

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, Kitasato University School of Allied Health Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan

Jiichiro Sasaki

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development Center for New Medical Frontiers, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Katsuhiko Naoki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.