Kuba, Sayaka https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0225-099X
Sagara, Yasuaki
Yano, Hiroshi
Maeda, Shigeto
Sakai, Takehiko
Kojima, Yasuyuki
Hattori, Masaya
Asaga, Sota
Tokunaga, Eriko
Shien, Tadahiko
Bando, Hiroko
Anan, Keisei
Iwakuma, Nobutaka
Minami, Shigeki
Yamaguchi, Miki
Harao, Michiko
Oikawa, Masahiro
Sangai, Takafumi
Ishitobi, Makoto
Nakayama, Takahiro
Hayashida, Tetsu
Tada, Manami
Tamaki, Kentaro
Kutomi, Goro
Tomiguchi, Mai
Harada-Shoji, Narumi
Kurashita, Kaname
Terata, Kaori
Yamanouchi, Kosho
Kubo, Makoto
Yumura, Chika
Takahashi, Yoko
Imoto, Shigeru
Ohno, Shinji
Hayashi, Naoki
Article History
Received: 27 March 2025
Accepted: 21 July 2025
First Online: 1 August 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have no conflict of interest disclosures to disclose.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Nagasaki University Hospital Clinical Research, Nagasaki, Japan (approval number, 22071102) on July 12, 2022. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study formal consent is not required.
: The study utilized an opt-out method for informed consent, where participants were informed about the study via a publicly available overview on the web and given the opportunity to decline participation.
: Not applicable.