Hanaka, Megumi
Iba, Kousuke https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9674-9232
Takada, Junichi
Sonoda, Tomoko
Kozakai, Yutaka
Oda, Takashi
Ishikawa, Ichiro
Tateda, Kenji
Fujita, Yasushi
Jimbo, Shunsuke
Matsumura, Takashi
Emori, Makoto
Teramoto, Atsushi
Katahira, Genichiro
Article History
Received: 1 January 2025
Accepted: 18 May 2025
First Online: 18 June 2025
Declarations
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: One of the authors (K.I.) is an endowed chair in the affiliated institution. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest to declare.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Sapporo Medical University Hospital (No. 332–3191) and the authors’ affiliated institutions. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.