Ono, Ryohei http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4875-7470
Nishimura, Kazutaka
Takahashi, Hidehisa
Hori, Yasuhiko
Fukushima, Kenichi
Kobayashi, Yoshio
Article History
Accepted: 16 August 2022
First Online: 14 September 2022
Declarations
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: No funding was received for the preparation of this article.
: Yoshio Kobayashi received lecture fees and a research grant from Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. Yoshio Kobayashi does not have any other relation with this funder, including employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products. Other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Matsudo City General Hospital (Approval number 30-9 and 31-7). This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: All participants provided informed consent prior to their participation.
: Not applicable.
: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: All authors contributed to the statistical analysis and writing of the study. R.O., K.F., and K.N. participated in the study design, acquisition of the data, and critical review and writing of the manuscript; H.T. and Y.H. participated in the acquisition of the data and designed the research; Y.K. critically revised the manuscript.
: Part of this article was presented in the ACC.22 conference abstract.