Hara, Satoshi
Ohta, Kunio
Aono, Daisuke
Tamai, Toshikatsu
Kurachi, Makoto
Sugimori, Kimikazu
Mihara, Hiroshi
Ichimura, Hiroshi
Yamamoto, Yasuhiko
Nomura, Hideki http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4995-6129
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (18K09969)
Article History
Received: 9 March 2023
Accepted: 24 September 2023
First Online: 18 October 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Kanazawa University (approval No. 2764).
: The ethics committee waived the requirement of informed consent from the participants because our study design is retrospective. In addition, all data were fully anonymized before we accessed them. Further, all participants had access to detailed information about the study, including the purpose, subjects, and content, available on our website. All subjects were allowed to withdraw from the study participation using a written form whenever they wanted. All these processes were approved by the Ethical Committee of Kanazawa University.