Watanabe, J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-3664
Ohya, H.
Sakai, J.
Suwa, Y.
Goto, K.
Nakagawa, K.
Ozawa, M.
Ishibe, A.
Suwa, H.
Kunisaki, C.
Endo, I.
Article History
Received: 28 August 2022
Accepted: 25 January 2023
First Online: 11 February 2023
Declarations
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: Dr. Jun Watanabe reports receiving honoraria for lectures from Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic and Eli Lilly, and receiving research funding from Medtronic, AMCO and TERUMO outside the submitted work. Drs. Hiroki Ohya, Jun Sakai, Yusuke Suwa, Kouki Goto, Kazuya Nakagawa, Mayumi Ozawa, Atsushi Ishibe, Hirokazu Suwa, Chikara Kunisaki, and Itaru Endo have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: This study protocol was approved by the Ethical Advisory Committee of Yokohama City University (B191200061) and the institutional review board of each participating hospital and conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Due to the study’s retrospective nature, written informed consent was not obtained. Therefore, we used the opt-out approach to disclose the study information. Participants were provided with information about this project and were able to decline participation voluntarily.