About the Authors

Jun Sugihara

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

sugihara.pulm@tmd.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sho Shibata

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masafumi Doi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Takuya Shimmura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Shinichiro Inoue

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Osamu Matsumoto

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Ayaka Makino

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Kashiwa Municipal Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Yasunari Miyazaki

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.