About the Authors

Yuki Yoshida

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuki Yoshida, Yotaro Takaku, Kazuyoshi Kurashima

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

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka city, Tokyo, Japan

Yotaro Takaku

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuki Yoshida, Yotaro Takaku, Kazuyoshi Kurashima

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

takaku.yotaro@pref.saitama.lg.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan

Yasuo Nakamoto

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan

Noboru Takayanagi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan

Tsutomu Yanagisawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan

Hajime Takizawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka city, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuyoshi Kurashima

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuki Yoshida, Yotaro Takaku, Kazuyoshi Kurashima

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

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.