Yamakawa, Nobuhide
Kotooka, Norihiko
Kato, Tomoyuki
Kuroda, Tatsuhiko
Node, Koichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Asahi Kasei Corporation
Article History
Received: 12 February 2021
Accepted: 10 September 2021
First Online: 1 October 2021
Declarations
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: N.K. has an endowed chair from Asahi Kasei Corporation since 2017. N.K. and K.N. received consulting fees from Asahi Kasei Corporation. N.Y. and T.K. are employees of Asahi Kasei Corporation.
: This study was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of Saga University, Japan. Written, informed consent was obtained from all subjects before measurement of baseline data. The need to obtain consent for participation in this study was waived due to the retrospective nature of the study.