Tominaga, Hiroyuki
Uezono, Shinobu
Kawamura, Ichiro
Yamashita, Yoshitaka
Taniguchi, Noboru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kagoshima University
Article History
Received: 18 August 2025
Accepted: 27 February 2026
First Online: 16 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The IRB of Izumi Regional Medical Center approved this study (approval number 20190115–1).
: All participants provided written informed consent.
: This research received no specific grant from any public, commercial, or not-for-profit funding agency. Hiroyuki Tominaga, Shinobu Uezono, Ichiro Kawamura, Yoshitaka Yamashita, and Noboru Taniguchi declare that they have no conflicts of interest.