About the Authors
- Takako Takayama
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Tsukuba Preventive Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan
- Hideo Suzuki
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Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: hideoszk@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
Affiliations Tsukuba Preventive Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan, The Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Kosuke Okada
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Tsukuba Preventive Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan
- Takeshi Yamada
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation The Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Kazushi Maruo
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Yoko Saito
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ibarakiken Medical Center, Mito, Japan
- Yuji Mizokami
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation The Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.