About the Authors

Hirotaka Matsuzaki

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yu Mikami

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Clinical Laboratory, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kousuke Makita

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hideyuki Takeshima

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masafumi Horie

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Health Service Promotion, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Noguchi

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Taisuke Jo

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Health Service Promotion, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Narumoto

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tadashi Kohyama

Affiliation Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Mizonokuchi Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Hajime Takizawa

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Takahide Nagase

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Yamauchi

YAMAUCHIY-INT@h.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM YM TN YY. Performed the experiments: HM YM KM SN HT ON YY. Analyzed the data: HM YM MH TJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK HT. Wrote the paper: HM YY.