About the Authors

Masataka Shiraki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Research Institute and Practice for Involutional Diseases, Azumino City, Nagano, Japan

Tatsuhiko Kuroda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Research Foundation, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masaki Nakano

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

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan

Yukio Nakamura

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

yxn14@aol.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan

Mitsuru Saito

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

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiko Urano

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

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare School of Medicine, Narita City, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.