Yamaguchi, Sosei
Ojio, Yasutaka
Koike, Junko
Matsunaga, Asami
Ogawa, Makoto
Kikuchi, Akiko
Kawashima, Takahiro
Tachimori, Hisateru
Bernick, Peter
Kimura, Hiroshi
Inagaki, Ataru
Watanabe, Hiroyuki
Kishi, Yoshiki
Yoshida, Koji
Hirooka, Takaaki
Oishi, Satoru
Matsuda, Yasuhiro
Fujii, Chiyo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H30-004, H28-001)
Article History
Received: 20 February 2024
Accepted: 24 June 2024
First Online: 5 August 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest in relation to the subject of this study.
: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The ethical considerations of the current study, including the informed consent process and patient privacy measures, are based on the ethics guidelines for medical research in Japan. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Graduate School of Medicine at Chiba University (no. 3154).