Arai, Hideo
Kawakubo, Masateru http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1867-1745
Abe, Ko
Hatashima, Hikaru
Sanui, Kenichi
Nishimura, Hiroshi
Kadokami, Toshiaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japanese Circulation Society
Article History
Received: 9 July 2019
Accepted: 8 September 2019
First Online: 14 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the authors declares that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the institutional review board, and the requirement for patient consent was waived. An online provision, on the hospital homepage, was prospectively made available to the patients for opting out of the study.