About the Authors

Kenta Takaura

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Kurosaki

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kento Inada

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Sakura Kirino

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kouji Yamashita

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiro Muto

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Leona Osawa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Shuhei Sekiguchi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yuka Hayakawa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Mayu Higuchi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Shun Kaneko

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Chiaki Maeyashiki

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuharu Tamaki

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Medicine, NAFLD Research Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yutaka Yasui

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Itakura

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kaoru Tsuchiya

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Nakanishi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yuka Takahashi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Namiki Izumi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

izumi012@musashino.jrc.or.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Namiki Izumi, Masayuki Kurosaki, and Kaoru Tsuchiya received lecture fees from Eisai, Bayer, Lilly, and Chugai.This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.