About the Authors

Akira Madarame

Contributed equally to this work with: Akira Madarame, Masakatsu Fukuzawa

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

madarame@tokyo-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Masakatsu Fukuzawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Akira Madarame, Masakatsu Fukuzawa

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kumiko Uchida

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Tadashi Ichimiya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Sakiko Naito

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiya Yamauchi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Morise

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuyuki Kagawa

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Muramatsu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Takao Itoi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.