Suwa, Kanehiko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1986-7061
Seki, Toshihito
Aoi, Kazunori
Yamashina, Masao
Murata, Miki
Yamashiki, Noriyo
Nishio, Akiyoshi
Shimatani, Masaaki
Naganuma, Makoto
Article History
Received: 30 December 2020
Revised: 14 February 2021
Accepted: 20 February 2021
First Online: 6 March 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The study protocol was conducted with the approval (approval no. 2018143) of the Ethics Committee of Kansai Medical University Medical Center (Moriguchi, Japan). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Clinical Research Board of Kansai Medical University Medical Center and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the present study. Further, we obtained patient consent for publication.