1. From the Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan (M. Satoh); Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (T. Ohkubo, K.A.); Department of Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sendai, Japan (K.A., Y.I.); Division of Medical Statistics, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan (Y.M.); Department of...