About the Authors

Takuro Mizuno

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University Himi Municipal Hospital, Himi, Toyama, Japan

Shigeru Mizuno

Affiliation Mizuno Clinic, Osaka, Japan

Tsugiyasu Kanda

kandat@kanazawa-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University Himi Municipal Hospital, Himi, Toyama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM SM TK. Performed the experiments: TM SM. Analyzed the data: TM TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK. Wrote the paper: TM TK.