Nakahashi, Susumu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5636-280X
Suzuki, Kei
Nakashima, Takaya
Hayashi, Yoshiro
Tanabe, Yuko
Tanaka, Aiko
Hashiuchi, Shinsuke
Yamashita, Chizuru
Ito, Yusuke
Wada, Takeshi
Yamashita, Ayahiro
Shima, Masanori
Hoshino, Tetsuya
Moriyama, Kiyoshi
Kazuma, Satoshi
Lee, Hyun Ah
Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu
Nakamura, Yukari
Kawanobe, Yu
Sofue, Toshiki
Nishimura, Yuki
Shinozaki, Tomohiro
Goto, Tadahiro
Hashimoto, Satoru
Fujino, Yuji
Shime, Nobuaki
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP 19K09433)
Hiroshima University
Article History
Received: 17 April 2025
Accepted: 2 August 2025
First Online: 1 September 2025
Declarations
:
: All the authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the guidelines for epidemiological studies issued by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare in Japan. The study protocol was approved by the Mie University Institutional Review Board (H2019047) and ethics committees of all other participating hospitals with an opt-out policy from the patient or proxy.
: Informed consent was not required due to the observational and anonymous nature of data collection.