About the Authors

Mamiko Aoi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Third Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

Naohiro Nakamura

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Third Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

Yusuke Honzawa

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

Affiliation Third Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

Norimasa Fukata

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Third Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

Makoto Naganuma

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

naganuma@hirakata.kmu.ac.jp

Affiliation Third Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.