Kurokawa, Ryo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1186-8900
Hagiwara, Akifumi
Kurokawa, Mariko
Ellingson, Benjamin M.
Baba, Akira
Moritani, Toshio
Funding for this research was provided by:
The University of Tokyo
Article History
Received: 9 March 2023
Revised: 30 June 2023
Accepted: 6 July 2023
First Online: 15 August 2023
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Toshio Moritani.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.We obtained our institutional review board exemption for including cases from University of Michigan.
: No study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported.
: • retrospective• case-control study• performed at one institution