Saita, Kazuya
Tanabe, Kazuaki
Hamai, Yoichi
Yamauchi, Masami
Kaneko, Fumiko
Mikami, Yukio
Okamoto, Wataru
Okada, Morihito
Ohdan, Hideki
Okamura, Hitoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP23K14734)
Hiroshima University
Article History
Received: 2 October 2024
Accepted: 1 February 2025
First Online: 15 February 2025
Declarations
Ethics approval: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethical Review Committee for Epidemiological Research of Hiroshima University (25 July 2022/E2022-0061).
Consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
Consent for publication: Participants signed informed consent regarding publishing their data and photographs.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.