About the Authors

Yasuaki Hayashino

hayasino-y@umin.net

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto, Japan

Makiko Utsugi-Ozaki

Affiliation Horikawa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Mitchell D. Feldman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shunichi Fukuhara

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH MU-O MDF SF. Performed the experiments: YH MU-O. Analyzed the data: YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH MU-O MDF SF. Wrote the paper: YH MU-O MDF SF.