Hamazaki, Kenya
Morikawa, Toru
Nezu, Mari
Oh, Koji
Nishio, Chihiro
Morimoto, Takeshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6844-739X
Article History
Received: 14 October 2024
Accepted: 12 March 2025
First Online: 31 March 2025
Declarations:
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: The Ethics Review Board of Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital (approval number: 23–017, 24–017) and Hyogo Medical University (approval number: 4770) approved this study.
: In place of a formal written consent, the opt-out consent method was displayed on the website of study hospital and allowed patients to refuse participation and/or publication.
: Dr. Hamazaki, Dr. Morikawa, Dr. Nezu, Dr. Oh, and Dr. Nishio report no competing interests. Dr. Morimoto reports lecturer's fees from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Daiichi Sankyo, Japan Lifeline, Pfizer, Tsumura, and UCB; manuscript fee from Pfizer; advisory board for GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Teijin.These pharmaceutical companies had no involvement in the study in any aspect.
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