Tanaka, Yuya
Kasuga, Yoshifumi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2395-9591
Akita, Keisuke
Fukuma, Yuka
Tamai, Junko
Hasegawa, Keita
Ikenoue, Satoru
Ochiai, Daigo
Tanaka, Mamoru
Article History
Received: 26 February 2025
Accepted: 24 August 2025
First Online: 25 October 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: This study was approved by our institutional ethics committee (Approval No. 20150168). All study procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical guidelines for medical and health research involving human subjects, as enforced by the Japanese government’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained electronically, and all participants were informed of their right to withdraw from the study.
: Informed consent was obtained electronically from all participants involved in the study.