Kurita, Naoki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1283-4307
Sakamoto, Tatsuhiro
Kato, Takayasu
Kusakabe, Manabu
Yokoyama, Yasuhisa
Nishikii, Hidekazu
Sakata-Yanagimoto, Mamiko
Obara, Naoshi
Hasegawa, Yuichi
Chiba, Shigeru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP15Aek0510005)
Article History
Received: 13 August 2020
Accepted: 20 January 2021
First Online: 12 February 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of University of Tsukuba Hospital (approval #H23-081 and #H26-184). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.