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Accepted: 14 October 2024

First Online: 29 October 2024

Declarations

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: This study did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

: Hiroshi Magara is an employee of Nxera Pharmaceuticals Japan Ltd. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

: The data that support the findings of this study are not openly available due to reasons of sensitivity but are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Review Board of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (approval number: M2000-788-33). This study involved secondary analyses of a claims database and did not directly involve participants. We did not involve patients in designing the research question, outcome measures, interpretation, or writing the results of this study. The participants were given the opportunity to opt out via the study website.

: The ethics review board of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University waived the need for informed consent because the study design involving secondary analyses of a claims database and did not directly involve participants (designing the research question, selecting the outcome measures, and interpreting and writing the results of this study). Participants were given the opportunity to opt out via the study website.

: Not applicable.

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: Hiroshi Magara and Yuri Nakamura were responsible for conceptualization, methodology, data curation, writing: original draft preparation, visualization, and investigation; Takuaki Tani and Shinobu Imai were responsible for conceptualization, methodology, data analysis and writing: reviewing and editing; Anna Kiyomi and Kensuke Yoshida were responsible for conceptualization, methodology, and writing: reviewing and editing; Kiyohide Fushimi was responsible for conceptualization, data acquisition, and writing: reviewing and editing; and Munetoshi Sugiura was responsible for conceptualization, methodology, writing: reviewing and editing, and supervision. All the authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.