Ishikawa, Shigeo
Konta, Tsuneo
Susa, Shinji
Ishizawa, Kenichi
Makino, Naohiko
Ueno, Yoshiyuki
Okuyama, Naoki
Iino, Mitsuyoshi
Article History
Received: 27 September 2022
Accepted: 10 October 2023
First Online: 20 October 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human partifcipants 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 was approved by the Ethics Committee of Yamagata University (No. 2022–135).
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants in the original cohort study. In this study, the participants were given an option to opt out online. None of the patients declined to participate.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.