Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Institute and Practice for Involutional Diseases
Article History
Received: 13 January 2022
Accepted: 11 May 2022
First Online: 13 June 2022
Declarations
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: A Taguchi, M Saito, and M Shiraki declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All the procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol of this investigation was approved by the ethics committee of the Research Institute and Practice for Involutional Diseases, Japan.
: Informed consent was obtained from all the individual participants included in the study.