About the Authors

Go Kuroda

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Shigekazu Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sasakis@hama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Akio Matsushita

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Kenji Ohba

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Medical Education Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Yuki Sakai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Shinsuke Shinkai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroko Misawa Nakamura

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Satoru Yamagishi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Organ and Tissue Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Kohji Sato

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Organ and Tissue Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Naoko Hirahara

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Shizuoka Hospital, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan

Yutaka Oki

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Internal medicine, Hamamatsu Kita Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Masahiko Ito

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Virology and Parasitology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Tetsuro Suzuki

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Virology and Parasitology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Takafumi Suda

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.