Ohya, H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5215-3960
Watanabe, J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-3664
Chida, K.
Goto, K.
Suwa, Y.
Nakagawa, K.
Suwa, H.
Ozawa, M.
Ishibe, A.
Endo, I.
Article History
Received: 3 September 2022
Accepted: 25 January 2023
First Online: 9 February 2023
Declarations
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: Dr. Jun Watanabe reports receiving honoraria for lectures from Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, and Eli Lilly and receiving research funding from Medtronic, AMCO, and TERUMO outside the submitted work. Drs. Hiroki Ohya, Keigo Chida, Kouki Goto, Yusuke Suwa, Kazuya Nakagawa, Hirokazu Suwa, Mayumi Ozawa, Atsushi Ishibe, and Itaru Endo declare no conflicts of interest in association with the present study.
: This study protocol was approved by the Ethical Advisory Committee of Yokohama City University (B191200061) and the institutional review board of each participating hospital and conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Due to the study’s retrospective nature, written informed consent was not obtained. Therefore, we used the opt-out approach to disclose the study information. Participants were provided with information about this project and were able to decline participation voluntarily.