Change in and Long-Term Investigation of Neuro-Otologic Disorders in Disaster-Stricken Fukushima Prefecture: Retrospective Cohort Study before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake

• Jun Hasegawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Hasegawa, Hiroshi Hidaka

  * E-mail: junha@orl.med.tohoku.ac.jp

  Current address: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Soma General Hospital, Soma, Fukushima, Japan; Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Soma General Hospital, Soma, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Hiroshi Hidaka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Hasegawa, Hiroshi Hidaka

  Current address: Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Shinichi Kuriyama ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Disaster Public Health, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Taku Obara ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Ken Hashimoto ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Yutaka Tateda ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Yuri Okumura ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Toshimitsu Kobayashi ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Yukio Katori

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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