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Article History

Received: 29 March 2023

Revised: 15 June 2023

Accepted: 19 June 2023

First Online: 8 July 2023

Declarations

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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee of Hiroshima City Hiroshima Citizens Hospital (No.: 2020–103) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration.

: Prior to the beginning of the study, we obtained a comprehensive written informed consent agreement declaring the possibility that the medical data of the patients admitted to our hospital would be used for research. Moreover, it was stated on our hospital’s website that the study patients were free to opt out of participation.

: The authors declare no conflict of interest. Equipment support was received from SenTec AG, Therwil, Switzerland. A protocol was developed, and the data were analyzed without industry input/support. No authors report a current or previous relationship between themselves and any company or organization with a vested interest in the outcome of this study.

: Fukuda Lifetech Co., Ltd., had no role in the design of the study and did not participate in study execution, analysis or interpretation of the data, or the decision to submit the results for publication.