Saito, Tomoyuki http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3832-4230
Nojiri, Shuko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0422-8152
Kasai, Takatoshi
Hiratsuka, Yoshimune
Ishijima, Muneaki
Daida, Hiroyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (JP19K12870)
Article History
Accepted: 11 April 2023
First Online: 30 April 2023
Declarations
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: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant number JP19K12870. The funding agency has no role other than funding this study, and the results reported here are independent of the funding source.
: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: This study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Juntendo University (approval number: E21-0264). According to the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Biological Research Involving Human Subjects, informed consent is not necessarily required for the use of nonpersonally identifiable data (ExternalRef removed). Therefore, this study was exempt from the requirement for written informed consent.
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: The original data used for this survey were purchased from a medical information database handling company and, therefore, could not be shared. The analysis datasets of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
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: Study design (TS, SN), data collection and data analysis (TS, SN), interpretation of results (TS, SN, TK, YH), drafting of the manuscript (TS, SN, TK, YH, MI, HD), revision of the manuscript (TS, SN, TK, YH, MI, HD). All authors read and approved the final submitted manuscript and agree to be accountable for the work.