Tasaki, Hikari
Eriguchi, Masahiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8422-7314
Yoshida, Hisako
Uemura, Takayuki
Fukata, Fumihiro
Nishimoto, Masatoshi
Kosugi, Takaaki
Matsui, Masaru
Samejima, Ken-ichi
Iseki, Kunitoshi
Asahi, Koichi
Yamagata, Kunihiro
Konta, Tsuneo
Fujimoto, Shouichi
Narita, Ichiei
Kasahara, Masato
Shibagaki, Yugo
Moriyama, Toshiki
Kondo, Masahide
Watanabe, Tsuyoshi
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
Article History
Received: 9 May 2023
Accepted: 25 July 2023
First Online: 21 August 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All procedures involving human participants were carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee at which the studies were conducted (Fukushima Medical University; IRB Approval Number #1485, #2771) and in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was conducted in accordance with the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects that was enacted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (). In the context of these guidelines, investigators are not necessarily required to obtain informed consent. Instead, we provided public information concerning the study on our website () and ensured that there were opportunities for the research participants to refuse the use of their personal information.