Kuwabara, Shirou https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9986-6626
Kobayashi, Kazuaki
Sudo, Natsuru
Nobuhiro, Masanori
Kajiyama, Yoh
Kobayashi, Takumi
Article History
Received: 21 June 2025
Accepted: 23 September 2025
First Online: 8 October 2025
Declarations
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: Shirou Kuwabara, Kazuaki Kobayashi, Natsuru Sudo, Masanori Nobuhiro, Yoh Kajiyama, and Takumi Kobayashi have no related conflicts of interest or financial ties to declare.
: 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 (#25–002).