Akaishi, Tetsuya
Tarasawa, Kunio
Hamada, Hirotaka
Iwama, Noriyuki
Tomita, Hasumi
Akaishi, Miho
Fushimi, Kiyohide
Fujimori, Kenji
Yaegashi, Nobuo
Saito, Masatoshi
Article History
Received: 29 July 2023
Revised: 28 September 2023
Accepted: 20 October 2023
First Online: 22 November 2023
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine (approval number: 2022-1-441) and Tokyo Medical and Dental University (approval number: M2000-788). Written informed consent was waived by the review boards because the used data was anonymized and included no personal information that could identify the individuals. Approvals to use the anonymized data were obtained from all cooperated facilities. The study protocol and processes were released on the websites of Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Tohoku University. All process of this study were performed in accordance with the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki as revised in 2013.