Toda, Minami https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5965-0951
Kume, Aya
Hara, Masato
Kimura, Hitomi
Nakamura, Yuki
Okumura, Koichiro
Beppu, Hiroko
Nakamura, Yuka
Ogawa, Hina
Kamei, Yuiko
Ishiwatari, Ayumi
Kawanishi, Tomoko
Ogawa, Toshie
Abe, Yasutomo
Endo, Mariko
Wakai, Sachiko
Article History
Received: 23 February 2022
Accepted: 8 April 2022
First Online: 29 April 2022
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures in this study involving human participants were approved by the Ethics Committee of Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Hospitals Corporation Ohkubo Hospital (approval number: 2021-16) and performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Because this was a retrospective and non-interventional study, we adopted an opt-out method instead of written informed consent. We provided patients with the opportunity to opt out by explaining the purpose of the study and the required individual data for the study by posting on the website of Ohkubo Hospital, 2-44-1 Kabuki-cho, Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan.