About the Authors

Kumiko Okino

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumiko Okino, Masahiro Yamane, Chikashi Kohmura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, School of Medical Technology, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Mitsuhiro Aoki

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Tobetsu-cho, Ishikari-gun, Japan

Masahiro Yamane

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumiko Okino, Masahiro Yamane, Chikashi Kohmura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Health Science University Hospital, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Chikashi Kohmura

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumiko Okino, Masahiro Yamane, Chikashi Kohmura

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, School of Medical Technology, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.