About the Authors

Yoshihiko Baba

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshihiko Baba, Chika Ooyama, Yasushi Tazawa, Masahiro Kohzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka, Japan

Chika Ooyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshihiko Baba, Chika Ooyama, Yasushi Tazawa, Masahiro Kohzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Sendai, Japan

Yasushi Tazawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshihiko Baba, Chika Ooyama, Yasushi Tazawa, Masahiro Kohzuki

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Sendai Orthopaedic Hospital, Sendai, Japan

Masahiro Kohzuki

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshihiko Baba, Chika Ooyama, Yasushi Tazawa, Masahiro Kohzuki

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

kohzuki@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.