About the Authors

Chisato Saeki

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

chisato@jikei.ac.jp (CS); atsubo@jikei.ac.jp (AT)

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Fuji City General Hospital, Fuji-shi, Shizuoka, Japan

Tsunekazu Oikawa

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoya Kanai

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Fuji City General Hospital, Fuji-shi, Shizuoka, Japan

Sachie Kiryu

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Fuji City General Hospital, Fuji-shi, Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroshi Kamioka

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kaoru Ueda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masanori Nakano

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Fuji City General Hospital, Fuji-shi, Shizuoka, Japan

Yuichi Torisu

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Fuji City General Hospital, Fuji-shi, Shizuoka, Japan

Masayuki Saruta

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Akihito Tsubota

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

chisato@jikei.ac.jp (CS); atsubo@jikei.ac.jp (AT)

Affiliation Project Research Units, Research Center for Medical Science, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.