Sotani-Ogawa, Rei
Kusuhara, Sentaro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6458-539X
Hirota, Yushi
Kim, Kyung Woo
Matsumiya, Wataru
Ogawa, Wataru
Nakamura, Makoto
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kobe University
Article History
Received: 20 June 2023
Revised: 27 September 2023
Accepted: 7 October 2023
First Online: 21 October 2023
Declarations
:
: Dr. Yushi Hirota and Wataru Ogawa received payments from Abbott Japan within the past 36 months for matters unrelated to this study.
: Dr. Sentaro Kusuhara is an editor of Graefe’s journal.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine (permission number: B210299).
: Since the analysis was retrospective, a waiver of informed consent was granted.
: Sentaro Kusuhara—although the corresponding author is the editor of the journal, there was no involvement with the peer review process for this article.