About the Authors

Akemi Sawai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yuriko Tochigi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Nadzeya Kavaliova

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Alexander Zaboronok

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.zaboronok@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (AZ); watanabe.koichi.ga@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (KW)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yuki Warashina

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Bryan J. Mathis

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Noboru Mesaki

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

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hitoshi Shiraki

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Koichi Watanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.zaboronok@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (AZ); watanabe.koichi.ga@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (KW)

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.