About the Authors

Yuji Shimizu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

simizu@iph.osaka.jp

Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Epidemiology Section, Division of Public Health, Osaka Institute of Public Health, Osaka, Japan

Hirotomo Yamanashi

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software

Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Leading Medical Research Core Unit, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Yuko Noguchi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Shin-Ya Kawashiri

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliations Leading Medical Research Core Unit, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Kazuhiko Arima

Roles Resources

Affiliations Leading Medical Research Core Unit, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Yasuhiro Nagata

Roles Resources

Affiliations Leading Medical Research Core Unit, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Takahiro Maeda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Leading Medical Research Core Unit, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

he authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.