Yasue, Kenji https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6655-6106
Fuse, Hiraku
Takaoka, Minori
Miyakawa, Shin
Koori, Norikazu
Takahashi, Masato
Shinoda, Kazuya
Ikoma, Hideaki
Fujisaki, Tatsuya
Abe, Shinji
Article History
Received: 7 February 2024
Revised: 30 September 2024
Accepted: 7 October 2024
First Online: 16 October 2024
Declarations
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the Japanese ethical guidelines for epidemiologic research.
: Participation consent was not required for this study as it involved the analysis of pre-existing, anonymized data, and did not involve any direct interaction with human subjects.
: Formal consent to publish individual participant data was not obtained for this study. The research exclusively involved the analysis of aggregated and de-identified data, and no personally identifiable information is presented in this manuscript.