Higuchi, Satoshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7914-8256
Matsumoto, Hidenari
Masaki, Ryota
Hirano, Takaho
Fuse, Shiori
Tanisawa, Hiroki
Masuda, Tomoaki
Mochizuki, Yasuhide
Maruta, Kazuto
Kondo, Seita
Omoto, Tadashi
Aoki, Atsushi
Shinke, Toshiro
Article History
Received: 24 April 2023
Accepted: 21 August 2023
First Online: 3 September 2023
Declarations
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: All authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
: The study protocol conformed to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and was in line with the Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research prescribed by the Japanese government. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Showa University on 11th July 2022 (the approval number: 22-087-B). The ethics committee approved this waiver.
: The study satisfied the conditions needed to waive the requirement for written informed consent from the individual participants.