Takazawa, Akitoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5726-2082
Asakura, Toshihisa
Kinoshita, Osamu
Nakajima, Hiroyuki
Yoshitake, Akihiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Saitama Medical University
Article History
Received: 8 November 2023
Accepted: 13 March 2024
First Online: 27 March 2024
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. The study protocol was approved by the Saitama Medical University International Medical Center Ethics Committee (ID: 19–164; September 4, 2019).
: Verbal informed consent was obtained and writen informed consent was waived by the Saitama Medical University International Medical Center Ethics Committee. This research was retrospective and consisted of surveys with reports presented no more than minimal risk of harm to subjects and involved no procedures for which written consent is normally required outside the research context.