From the ∗Keio University School of Medicine
Departments of †Surgery
‡Internal Medicine
§Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Keio University School of Medicine
∥Clinical and Translational Research Center, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Received for publication June 9, 2021; accepted June 6, 2022.
Address correspondence to: Minoru Kitago, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinanomachi 35, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]).
This work was supported by Kenko Kagaku Zaidan (grant KenkoKagakuZaidan201902). The funder had no involvement in this study.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
G.F., K.A., A.H. participated in the conceptualization. K.A., M.K. participated in the study design. E.I., S.F. participated in the data acquisition. Y.H., S.H., M.T., Y.N. participated in the quality control of data and algorithms. R.T., R.I. participated in the data analysis and interpretation. G.F., T.Y., G.S. participated in the statistical analysis. K.A., M.K. participated in the funding acquisition. M.K., Y.K. participated in the project administration. G.F., K.A., M.K. participated in the manuscript preparation. H.Y., Y.A. participated in the article editing. G.F., K.A. participated in roles/writing—original draft. M.K., Y.K. participated in the writing—review and editing.
G.F. and K.A. contributed equally to this work.
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