Hiroyuki Otani,
Amano, Koji
Morita, Tatsuya
Miura, Tomofumi
Mori, Naoharu
Tatara, Ryohei
Kessoku, Takaomi
Matsuda, Yoshinobu
Tagami, Keita
Mori, Masanori
Taniyama, Tomohiko
Nakajima, Nobuhisa
Nakanishi, Erika
Kako, Jun
Shirado, Akemi Naito
Yokomichi, Naosuke
Miyashita, Mitsunori
Funding for this research was provided by:
笹川記念健康財団、日本 (2020A-001)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (21K10319)
Article History
Received: 28 September 2022
Accepted: 17 January 2023
First Online: 30 January 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration and the ethical guidelines for medical and health research involving human participants presented by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare in Japan. The study was approved by the local Institutional Review Boards of all participating institutions. Japanese law does not require individual informed consent from participants in a non-invasive observational trial such as this study. If patients did not want to participate, we requested they return the questionnaire with “no participation” indicated. The completion and return of the questionnaire were regarded as the consent to participate.
: The authors declare no competing interests.