Article History
Received: 28 September 2023
Accepted: 1 August 2024
First Online: 17 August 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants followed the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and were according to the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The protocol was approved by the Ethical Review Committee at the Teikyo University School of Medicine (No. 07–104).
: The authors declare no competing interests.