Aizawa, Masaki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4682-5118
Yabusaki, Hiroshi
Nakada, Koji
Matsuki, Atsushi
Bamba, Takeo
Nakagawa, Satoru
Article History
Received: 14 February 2022
Accepted: 25 July 2022
First Online: 28 July 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent was replaced by an informed opt-out procedure because of the retrospective nature of the study and analysis used anonymous clinical data. The study was conducted with the approval of our Institutional Review Board.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The subjects’ sex was not considered as a biologic variable in this work.