Hanawa, Shunya
Ejima, Masaru https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-778X
Sugawara, Mari
Kubota, Natsushi
Kato, Rina
Hanawa, Kotaro
Higashi, Seishi
Hanada, Satoko
Taki, Reiko
Article History
Received: 31 August 2025
Accepted: 3 March 2026
First Online: 17 March 2026
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The present study conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Musashino Red Cross Hospital (approval number 7004). The team acquired no administrative permission or licenses to access the data used in this research. The need for informed consent was waived by the Ethics Committee of the Musashino Red Cross Hospital owing to the retrospective nature of this study. We publicly disclosed the details of the implementation of this study to ensure that the participants had the opportunity to withdraw, thereby adhering to the Ethics Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects.
: Not applicable.