Mimura, Tatsuya
Noma, Hidetaka
Yamaguchi, Masao
Shinbo, Koichiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (20H04347)
an unrestricted investigator-initiated grant from Alcon Japan Ltd. (IIT#63215725)
Article History
Received: 3 January 2024
Accepted: 16 February 2024
First Online: 14 March 2024
Declarations
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: We certify that all our affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or financial conflicts with the subject matter discussed in the manuscript are completely disclosed in the acknowledgement section of the manuscript.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association 2013) and the Ethical Guidelines for Medical Health. The studies involving human participants were approved by the Teikyo University Ethical Review Committee (#20-166 and #SCR21-007). Several studies, including the current one, have been registered as clinical trials in the University Medical Information Network for Clinical Trials (UMIN-CTR) (UMIN registration numbers: UMIN000041107 and UMIN000042269) and the Japan Registry of Clinical Trials (jRCT) (jRCTs032210342).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants after a complete explanation of the study content.