Matsumoto, Shunya
Yoshida, Soichiro
Yajima, Shugo
Sato, Hiroyuki
Hirakawa, Akihiro
Fujiwara, Motohiro
Fukushima, Hiroshi
Yasuda, Yosuke
Waseda, Yuma
Tanaka, Hajime
Yokoyama, Minato
Masuda, Hitoshi
Fujii, Yasuhisa
Article History
Received: 5 February 2026
Accepted: 13 February 2026
First Online: 17 March 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This is a secondary reevaluation of the meta-analysis reported by Chang et al. No individual-level patient data or human participants were involved; therefore, ethics review was not required.
: This is a secondary reevaluation of the meta-analysis reported by Chang et al. No individual-level patient data or human participants were involved; therefore, informed consent and consent to publish were not required.
: The authors used ChatGPT (OpenAI, GPT-5.2) for English language editing and improvement of readability. No generative AI was used in study design, data analysis, or interpretation of the results. The authors are fully responsible for the content of this manuscript.