Yamaya, Noriki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3951-8806
Ikeda, Shigeyuki http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8175-6966
Hoshino, Yuichi
Takeuchi, Hikaru http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8022-9694
Kawashima, Ryuta
Funding for this research was provided by:
Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education, Tohoku University
Article History
Accepted: 28 December 2022
First Online: 10 January 2023
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network (ID: UMIN000034888). All the participants provided written informed consent and all the procedures performed in this study follow the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The researcher provided the research participants with an explanatory document approved by the Ethics Review Committee, explained the research, gave them sufficient time to decide on whether to participate, and confirmed that they had a good understanding of the study before asking them to participate. If the research participants agreed to participate in the study, they were asked to sign the consent document. The principal investigator kept the original consent document at the research institution, and a copy was given to the research participants.
: The authors declare no competing interests.