Mikami, Yumiko
Ogawa, Meiko
Hayasaka, Yuuki
Yamakami, Asuka
Hattori, Kanako
Fukazawa, Chizumi
Ito, Takafumi
Kanomata, Naoki
Terawaki, Hiroyuki http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9165-551X
Article History
Received: 15 November 2023
Accepted: 4 March 2024
First Online: 20 March 2024
Declarations
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted (IRB approval number 23-R061, the institutional review board of St. Luke’s International University) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was not obtained from individual patients because the laboratory data used in this study were extracted from routine examination files and analyzed retrospectively. However, we posted the research content at the hospital and gave all participants the opportunity to refuse to participate.