Niizeki, Takashi
Tokunaga, Takayuki
Takami, Yuko
Wada, Yoshiyuki
Harada, Masaru
Shibata, Michihiko
Nakao, Kazuhiko
Sasaki, Ryu
Hirai, Fumihito
Shakado, Satoshi
Yoshizumi, Tomoharu
Itoh, Shinji
Yatsuhashi, Hiroshi
Bekki, Shigemune
Ido, Akio
Mawatari, Seiichi
Honda, Koichi
Sugimoto, Rie
Senju, Takeshi
Takahashi, Hirokazu
Kuwashiro, Takuya
Maeshiro, Tatsuji
Nakamuta, Makoto
Aratake, Yoshifusa
Yamashita, Tsutomu
Otsuka, Yuichiro
Matsumoto, Shuichi
Sohda, Tetsuro
Shimose, Shigeo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2068-8386
Murotani, Kenta
Tanaka, Yasuhito
Article History
Accepted: 19 September 2022
First Online: 22 October 2022
Declarations
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: This study did not receive any financial support.
: Takashi Niizeki, Takayuki Tokunaga, Yuko Takami, Yoshiyuki Wada, Masaru Harada, Michihiko Shibata, Kazuhiko Nakao, Ryu Sasaki, Fumihito Hirai, Satoshi Shakado, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Shinji Itoh, Hiroshi Yatsuhashi, Shigemune Bekki, Akio Ido, Seiichi Mawatari, Koichi Honda, Rie Sugimoto, Takeshi Senju, Hirokazu Takahashi, Takuya Kuwashiro, Tatsuji Maeshiro, Makoto Nakamuta, Yoshifusa Aratake, Tsutomu Yamashita, Yuichiro Otsuka, Shuichi Matsumoto, Tetsuro Sohda, Shigeo Shimose, Kenta Murotani, and Yasuhito Tanak declare they have no conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.
: This study conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kurume University (approval number: 21006). An opt-out approach was used to obtain informed consent from patients and personal information was protected during data collection.
: An opt-out approach was used to obtain informed consent from patients.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request
: Not applicable.
: TN and SS participated in study conception and design, data acquisition, data interpretation, and manuscript drafting. TT, YT, YW, MH, MS, KN, RS, FH, SS, TY, SI, HY, SB, AI, SM, KH, RS, TS, HT, TK, TM, MN, YA, TY, YO, SM, and TS participated in data acquisition. TN, SS, and KM participated in data analysis, data interpretation, and manuscript drafting. YT participated in the critical revision of the manuscript.