Fujiya, Taku
Iwafuchi, Kotoko
Itasaka, Takuho
Ujiie, Keita
Watanabe, Taichi
Munakata, Yuichiro
Tanji, Yasuhiro
Sawada, Shojiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-225X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Article History
Received: 14 January 2025
Accepted: 15 May 2025
First Online: 16 June 2025
Declarations
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: The authors Taku Fujiya, Kotoko Iwafuchi, Takuho Itasaka, Keita Ujiie, Taichi Watanabe, Yuichiro Munakata, Yasuhiro Tanji, Shojiro Sawada declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (Institutional Review Board of Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, approval number: 2024–2-030, date of approval June 17, 2024) and the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. We applied the opt-out method, offering opportunities for refusal via the Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital website, instead of obtaining informed consent.