Horinouchi, Shuji
Harada, Mihoko
Ikeda, Sakiko
Horinouchi, Remi
Kubo, Misako
Tashiro, Yuma
Ijuin, Ayako
Mukai, Miki
Nishio, Yoshihiko
Article History
Received: 30 March 2022
Accepted: 24 June 2022
First Online: 16 July 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later revisions. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kagoshima City Hospital (approval no: 2019-46, approval date: 20 November 2019). Because of the retrospective observational design, written informed consent was not obtained from the participants, although it was obtained via the opt-out method through the website of the institution.