Kosugi, Shin-ichi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6602-7412
Aizawa, Naotaka
Ichikawa, Hiroshi
Magara, Jin
Hanyu, Takaaki
Ishikawa, Takashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP17K00813)
Article History
Received: 16 June 2020
Accepted: 26 August 2020
First Online: 15 September 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the institutional review board of each hospital (No. 2017-0034 in a teaching hospital A and No. 29-011 in a district general hospital B). All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.