Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan. Electronic address: toshihiro-shirai@i.shizuoka-pho.jp.
• ² Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
• ³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁶ Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁷ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁸ Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Medical Technology, Okayama University Academic Field of Health Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Social Medical Corporation Foundation of St. Francis Himeji St. Mary's Hospital, Hyogo, Japan.
• ¹¹ Jinyu Clinic, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹² Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹³ Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.