About the Authors

Machiko Inoue

machiko-inoue@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Inoue

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Chiba Medical Center, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Kimihiko Akimoto

Affiliation Akimoto Occupational Health Consultant Office, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MI KI KA. Performed the experiments: KA. Analyzed the data: MI KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI. Wrote the paper: MI.