Kawata, Naoko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4083-4531
Iwao, Yuma
Matsuura, Yukiko
Suzuki, Masaki
Ema, Ryogo
Sekiguchi, Yuki
Sato, Hirotaka
Nishiyama, Akira
Nagayoshi, Masaru
Takiguchi, Yasuo
Suzuki, Takuji
Haneishi, Hideaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22K12836)
Japanese Respiratory Foundation
Article History
Received: 15 March 2023
Accepted: 28 June 2023
First Online: 13 July 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: This retrospective multi-center study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Chiba University (No. 4074), Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital (No. 20200301), Kashiwa Kousei General Hospital l (No. 21005), and Eastern Chiba Medical Center (No.161). The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The institutional review boards of all hospital institutions included in the present study provided ethical approval. The requirement for written informed consent was waived.