Kitaguchi, Daichi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8197-6317
Enomoto, Tsuyoshi
Furuya, Kinji
Tsukamoto, Shuntaro
Oda, Tatsuya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP23K17185)
Article History
Received: 8 March 2025
Accepted: 16 May 2025
First Online: 7 June 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All participants provided informed consent on an opt-out basis.
: The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Tsukuba Hospital (Approval No. R01-104) and conformed to the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki (revised in Brazil in 2013). This study adhered to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guidelines.