Takagi, Shinsuke https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0441-393X
Watanabe, Otoya
Yamaguchi, Kyosuke
Kageyama, Kosei
Kaji, Daisuke
Taya, Yuki
Nishida, Aya
Ishiwata, Kazuya https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3571-700X
Yamamoto, Hisashi
Asano-Mori, Yuki
Yamamoto, Go
Wake, Atsushi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9653-6170
Taniguchi, Shuichi
Uchida, Naoyuki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5952-5926
Funding for this research was provided by:
Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research
Article History
Received: 17 October 2024
Revised: 5 December 2024
Accepted: 16 December 2024
First Online: 23 December 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in the study was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki in 1964 and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Institutional Review Board of Toranomon Hospital approved this study (approval number, 1939).
: An opt-out consent approach was permitted for this study in accordance with ethical guidelines for observational studies using existing data, and patients who declined registration were excluded.