Karashima, Eiji http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2980-7476
Takahara, Mitsuyoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5105-041X
Hozawa, Koji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2017-7220
Yamauchi, Yasutaka
Suzuki, Kenji
Suematsu, Nobuhiro
Miyashita, Yusuke
Enomoto, Soichiro
Tokuyama, Hideo
Murata, Naotaka
Haraguchi, Kazuki
Soga, Yoshimitsu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1931-5769
Article History
Received: 2 April 2021
Accepted: 29 August 2021
First Online: 14 September 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have 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.
: Following the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects in Japan, as the present study was performed with the secondary use of secondary data from medical records, it was exempted from the requirement of informed consent. The relevant information regarding this study was openly disclosed to the public.
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