Tachi, Tomoya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-0218
Otsubo, Manami
Toyoshima, Manabu
Murayama, Azusa
Katsuno, Hayato
Ueno, Anri
Noguchi, Yoshihiro
Aoyama, Satoshi
Yasuda, Masahiro
Mizui, Takashi
Goto, Chitoshi
Teramachi, Hitomi
Article History
Received: 6 April 2020
Accepted: 4 May 2020
First Online: 26 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: 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.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Gifu Pharmaceutical University (Approval No. 28-9), Gifu Municipal Hospital (Approval No. 348), and Tomei Atsugi Hospital (approved on January 11, 2018).
: Based on the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan), obtaining written informed consent from patients was not required because this study was a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data and did not require any interventions or interactions with patients.