About the Authors

Takuya Kuzumoto

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Tanigawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

ttanigawa@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City Juso Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Akira Higashimori

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Hiroyuki Kitamura

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Yuji Nadatani

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Koji Otani

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Shusei Fukunaga

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Shuhei Hosomi

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Fumio Tanaka

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Noriko Kamata

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Yasuaki Nagami

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Koichi Taira

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Toshio Watanabe

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.