Iwasaki, Kotaro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0901-9966
Wakabayashi, Hiroki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8705-441X
Saiki, Atsuhito http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4009-9386
Ueshiba, Hajime http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8090-352X
Murakami, Yu http://orcid.org/0009-0000-7792-0444
Matsuzawa, Yasuo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7470-6303
Article History
Accepted: 2 October 2023
First Online: 26 October 2023
Declarations
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: The authors received no specific funding for this work.
: Kotaro Iwasaki, Hiroki Wakabayashi, Atsuhito Saiki, Hajime Ueshiba, Yu Murakami, and Yasuo Matsuzawa declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.
: This study and consent procedure were approved by the Ethics Committee of Toho University Sakura Medical Center (approval number: S21084; approval date: 11 October 2022). We utilized an opt-out method to obtain patient consent regarding the use of their personal information, by publishing the research content and our policy on personal information on the hospital website.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: Conceptualization: YM and IK; data collection: IK, HW, and YM; formal analysis: YM and IK; supervision: AS and HU; writing—original draft preparation: IK; writing—review and editing: YM; approval of final manuscript: all authors.