Article History
Received: 8 February 2024
Accepted: 4 May 2024
First Online: 28 May 2024
Declarations
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: Shirou Kuwabara, Kazuaki Kobayashi, and Natsuru Sudo have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose..
: All procedures involving human participants performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Niigata City General Hospital (#23-032).