Kawata, Naoko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4083-4531
Iwao, Yuma
Matsuura, Yukiko
Higashide, Takashi
Okamoto, Takayuki
Sekiguchi, Yuki
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: 20 May 2024
Accepted: 2 November 2024
First Online: 25 November 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: This retrospective multicenter study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Chiba University (No. 4074 Date 2021/11/24) and Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital (No. 20200301). 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 due to the characteristics of the retrospective study.