About the Authors

Takeshi Nishiyama

nishiyama@minos.ocn.ne.jp

Affiliation Clinical Trial Management Center, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Hirohisa Kishino

Affiliation Laboratory of Biometry and Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Sadao Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Ryosuke Ando

Affiliation Department of Nephro-urology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Hideshi Niimura

Affiliation Department of International Island and Community Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Hirokazu Uemura

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute of Health Biosciences the University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Mikako Horita

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan

Keizo Ohnaka

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Nagato Kuriyama

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology for Community Health and Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto, Japan

Haruo Mikami

Affiliation Division of Cancer Registry, Prevention and Epidemiology, Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba, Japan

Naoyuki Takashima

Affiliation Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan

Keitaro Mastuo

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Yin Guang

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Kenji Wakai

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Nobuyuki Hamajima

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Hideo Tanaka

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan

for the J-MICC Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH HT KW. Performed the experiments: SS RA HN HU MH KO NK HM NT KM YG KW NH HT. Analyzed the data: TN HK. Wrote the paper: TN HK SS KW NH HT.