Nishimagi, Atsushi
Kobayashi, Makoto
Sugimoto, Kotaro
Kofunato, Yasuhide
Sato, Naoya
Haga, Junichiro
Ishigame, Teruhide
Kimura, Takashi
Kenjo, Akira
Kobayashi, Yasuyuki
Hashimoto, Yuko
Marubashi, Shigeru
Chiba, Hideki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22K08896, 19K16615, 17K08699)
Article History
Received: 24 March 2023
Accepted: 20 May 2023
First Online: 7 June 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Fukushima Medical University (Fukushima, Japan; approval code, 2019-311; approval date, Mar 18, 2020). The research was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration or comparable standards. The study was carried out by an opt-out method. Since it was conducted as a retrospective study using cases with a follow-up period of more than 5 years, the patients had already died or stopped visiting the hospital. The experimental protocol has been disclosed on the website, and the patients or their representatives were able to decline to participate in the survey if they wanted. All animal experiments complied with the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the Animal Committee at Fukushima Medical University (approval code, 2021-092; approval date, May 10, 2021).
: Not applicable.