About the Authors

Keishi Sugino

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

ks115108@tsuboi-hp.or.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tsuboi Hospital, Koriyama city, Fukushima, Japan

Hirotaka Ono

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tsuboi Hospital, Koriyama city, Fukushima, Japan

Mikako Saito

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tsuboi Hospital, Koriyama city, Fukushima, Japan

Masahiro Ando

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tsuboi Hospital, Koriyama city, Fukushima, Japan

Eiyasu Tsuboi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tsuboi Hospital, Koriyama city, Fukushima, Japan

Competing Interests

All authors contributed substantially to this work and are responsible for the consent of the manuscript. KS have received lecture fees from Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd and Shionogi & Co., Ltd. The other authors have no financial relationships relevant to this article. All authors have no competing non-financial interests.