Tsuchiya, Naoki http://orcid.org/0009-0001-0986-9533
Kimura, Koichiro
Tateishi, Ukihide
Watabe, Tadashi
Hatano, Koji
Uemura, Motohide
Nonomura, Norio
Shimizu, Akinobu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2719-5923
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Grants and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development Grants (22ck0106577h0003)
the QiSS program of the OPERA from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JPMJOP1721)
Article History
Received: 26 May 2023
Accepted: 19 January 2024
First Online: 8 February 2024
Declarations
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: This manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration for publication in any other journal. All authors have approved the manuscript and agree with its submission to IJCARS. All procedures in this study involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committees and the 1975 Helsinki Declaration [as revised in 2008(5)].