Fukui, Akira http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7383-4159
Takeshita, Kohei
Nakashima, Akio
Maruyama, Yukio
Tsuboi, Nobuo
Hoshina, Tokio
Yokoo, Takashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (22FD1001)
Article History
Received: 24 March 2023
Accepted: 16 October 2023
First Online: 14 November 2023
Declarations
:
: All the authors have declared no competing interest.
: The institutional review boards of Jikei University Hospital and affiliated hospitals and clinics, as well as the ethics council at Jikei University School of Medicine, all reviewed and approved the research protocol (Approval No.: 32–051[10126]). The Declaration of Helsinki and any subsequent revisions were followed in all aspects of the study’s protocols.
: Informed consent from the patients was not required because the research was retrospective. Instead, each individual participant was given the choice to decline participation in this research.