Funding for this research was provided by:
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (18k12098))
Article History
Received: 4 March 2021
Accepted: 26 May 2021
First Online: 5 June 2021
Declarations
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: This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (18k12098) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (M. D). The authors state that they have no conflicts of interest other than that.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.'