Ide, Risa
Ogata, Makiko
Iwasaki, Naoko
Babazono, Tetsuya
Article History
Received: 15 October 2018
Accepted: 21 February 2019
First Online: 28 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and/or with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: 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, and the study protocol complied with the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects. The study design was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Tokyo Women’s Medical University School of Medicine (9 May, 2017 No. 3829R).