Acknowledgement
We thank Melissa Leffler, MBA, from Edanz (https://jp.edanz.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript. The current members of the W2S-Ohpm Study, in alphabetical order, are as follows: Akiko Matsuyama, Asumi Yama, Ayaka Yamamoto, Ayana Ogasawara, Hideki Fujiwara, Juri Matsuoka, Kakeru Tsutsumi, Kazufumi Matsuyama, Kenta Moriya, Kiminori Odagami, Koji Mori, Kosuke Sakai, Masako Nagata, Miho Omori, Mika Kawasumi, Mizuho Inagaki, Naoto Ito, Rina Minohara, Shunusuke Inoue, Suo Taira, Takahiro Mori, Tomohisa Nagata (present chairperson of the study group), and Tomoko Sawajima. All members are affiliated with the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan. This study was supported and partly funded by the research grant from the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (no grant number); Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (210401-01 and 20JA1005); JSPS KAKENHI (JP22K10543 and JP19K19471); Collabo-Health study group (no grant number), TIS Inc. (no grant number), HASEKO Corporation (no grant number), DAIDO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (no grant number), and Hitachi Systems, Ltd. (no grant number). The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication.
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