About the Authors
- Akiko Nanri
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* E-mail: nanri@ri.ncgm.go.jp
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Tetsuya Mizoue
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Kayo Kurotani
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Atsushi Goto
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Affiliation Department of Diabetes Research, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Shino Oba
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Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, National Institute of Public Health, Wako, Japan
- Mitsuhiko Noda
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Affiliation Department of Diabetes Research, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Norie Sawada
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Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Group, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
- Shoichiro Tsugane
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Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Group, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
- for the Japan Public Health Center-Based Prospective Study Group
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¶Membership of the Japan Public Health Center-Based Prospective Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ST. Performed the experiments: ST NS. Analyzed the data: AN. Wrote the paper: AN. Drafted the plan for the data analyses: AN TM KK AG SO MN. Interpretation of the results and revision of the manuscript: AN TM KK AG SO MN NS ST.