Tahara, Masahiro
Fujino, Yoshihisa
Yamasaki, Kei
Oda, Keishi
Kido, Takashi
Sakamoto, Noriho
Kawanami, Toshinori
Kataoka, Kensuke
Egashira, Ryoko
Hashisako, Mikiko
Suzuki, Yuzo
Fujisawa, Tomoyuki
Mukae, Hiroshi
Suda, Takafumi
Yatera, Kazuhiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2955-4432
Article History
Received: 2 December 2020
Accepted: 24 February 2021
First Online: 12 March 2021
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the amended Declaration of Helsinki. The institutional review boards of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan (18-013) and the Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan (19-003) approved the protocol.
: Not applicable.
: MT received grants from GlaxoSmithKline and speakers’ fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and MSD, all outside the submitted work. YF received grants from Hitachi Systems, Ltd. and NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION and personal fees from Asahi Kasei, The Asahi Shimbun Company, AstraZeneca, CHUGAI, NTT DATA MSE CORPORATION, Pfizer, Sompo Health Support Inc., and THE LOFT CO., LTD., all outside the submitted work. KY received speakers’ fees from Novartis outside the submitted work. TK received speakers’ fees from Asahi Kasei, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and TEIJIN outside the submitted work. NS received consultancy or speakers’ fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, CHUGAI, and Daiichi Sankyo outside the submitted work. TK received speakers’ fees from KYORIN outside the submitted work. KK received speakers’ fees from Boehringer Ingelheim outside the submitted work. RE received grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and speakers’ fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, EISAI, KYORIN, and SHIONOGI, all outside the submitted work. YS received grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Ichiro Kanehara Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Sciences and Medical Care, as well as received industry-academic funding from MSD and Novartis, all outside the submitted work. HM received industry-academic funding from Asahi Kasei, Astellas, Boehringer Ingelheim, CHUGAI, Daiichi Sankyo, EISAI, Eli Lilly, Fujifilm, GlaxoSmithKline, KYORIN, Meiji Seika, MSD, Novartis, ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., Oxford Immunotec, Inc., Pfizer, SHIONOGI, Sumitomo Dainippon, TAIHO, TAISHO, Takeda, TEIJIN, TORAY, TORII, Toyama Chemical, and Yakult, as well as consultancy or speakers’ fees from Abbott, Asahi Kasei, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers, CHUGAI, Daiichi Sankyo, Denka Seiken, Eli Lilly, Fujifilm, GlaxoSmithKline, KYORIN, Meiji Seika, MSD, Mylan, Nihon Pharmaceutical, Nikkei Radio, Novartis, ONO, Pfizer, SHIONOGI, Sumitomo Dainippon, TAIHO, TAISHO, TEIJIN, TORAY, and Toyama Chemical, all outside the submitted work. TS received industry-academic funding from Astellas, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers, CHUGAI, Eli Lilly, Daiichi Sankyo, KYORIN, MITSUBISHI, MSD, Novartis, ONO, Pfizer, Sanofi, SHIONOGI, TAIHO, TAISHO, Taisho Toyama, Takeda, TANABE, and TEIJIN, as well as consultancy or speakers’ fees from Astellas, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, CHUGAI, Eli Lilly, KYORIN, Daiichi Sankyo, SHIONOGI, MSD, Novartis, ONO, Pfizer, TAISHO, Taisho Toyama, and Tanabe Mitsubishi, all outside the submitted work. KY received industry-academic funding from Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, KYORIN, MSD, Novartis, ONO, Pfizer, TAIHO, TAISHO, and TEIJIN, as well as consultancy or speakers’ fees from Asahi Kasei, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers, CHUGAI, Daiichi Sankyo, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, KYORIN, MSD, Novartis, ONO, Pfizer, SHIONOGI, TAIHO, TAISHO, TEIJIN, and TOA EIYO LTD., all outside the submitted work. The other authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.