Article History
Received: 2 October 2020
Accepted: 26 March 2021
First Online: 13 April 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The research was conducted at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shinshu University Hospital. All research procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of Shinshu University, School of Medicine (2770).
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional review board of the Shinshu Univerisy and we performed in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration.
: This study does not contain any research on animals.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.
: All participants signed an informed consent form regarding the publication of their aggregated, anonymized data, preventing identification of individuals.