Ikeuchi, Hidekazu
Sugiyama, Hitoshi
Sato, Hiroshi
Yokoyama, Hitoshi
Maruyama, Shoichi
Mukoyama, Masashi
Hayashi, Hiroki
Tsukamoto, Tatsuo
Fukuda, Michio
Yamagata, Kunihiro
Ishikawa, Eiji
Uchida, Keiko
Kamijo, Yuji
Nakagawa, Naoki
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
Nojima, Yoshihisa
Hiromura, Keiju https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9490-8364
Article History
Received: 9 November 2021
Accepted: 21 April 2022
First Online: 12 May 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that no conflict of interest exists.
: This retrospective cohort study followed the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Japanese Society of Nephrology (Reference number, 34 (32–2)), the Ethics Committee of Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine (Reference number, 27–3), and the Ethics Committee of each institution.
: Patients were provided with the opportunity to opt out of participating in this study, and all of the study information, including its publication, were provided on each institution’s home page.