1. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
2. Department of Gastroenterology, Okayama City Hospital, Okayama, Japan
3. Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
4. Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, School of Medical Technology, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan
5. Department of Nutrition, Sapporo University of Health Sciences, Sapporo, Japan
6. Denka Seiken Company Limited, Tokyo, Japan