Updates are available Correction dated 2023-10-21

Article History

Received: 26 November 2022

Accepted: 10 August 2023

First Online: 7 September 2023

Change Date: 21 October 2023

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-023-02410-5

Declarations

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: All the authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation and data collection and analysis were performed by Shojiro Okamoto, Takeshi Matsuyama, Riku Hamada, Yoshihiko Morikawa, Masako Tomotsune, Tetsuji Kaneko, Katsumi Abe, Atsushi Uchiyama, and Masataka Honda. Data analysis was performed by Shojiro Okamoto, Yoshihiko Morikawa, Masako Tomotsune, Tetsuji Kaneko, and Masataka Honda. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Shojiro Okamoto and Masataka Honda, and all the authors have commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All the authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

: All procedures involving human participants were done in accordance with the guidelines for epidemiological studies issued by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (IRB approval #1 at Fussa Hospital and #25–33 at THSA) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: As this study involved no risk to the subjects, was highly beneficial to them, and could not be accomplished by other means, the Ethics Committee of the research institution allowed individual informed consent to be waived in accordance with the "Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research (2013)" published by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. A research prospectus, including the use of specimens and a statement of the right not to participate, was made available on the Fussa Hospital and THSA websites in accordance with the Japanese guidelines.