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Authors
Tasaki, Hikari
Kosugi, Takaaki
Eriguchi, Masahiro
Yoshida, Hisako
Uemura, Takayuki
Tamaki, Hiroyuki
Furuyama, Riri
Nishimoto, Masatoshi
Matsui, Masaru
Samejima, Ken-ichi
Iseki, Kunitoshi
Asahi, Koichi
Yamagata, Kunihiro
Konta, Tsuneo
Fujimoto, Shouichi
Narita, Ichiei
Kasahara, Masato
Shibagaki, Yugo
Moriyama, Toshiki
Kondo, Masahide
Watanabe, Tsuyoshi
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
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Article History
Received: 29 January 2025
Revised: 21 July 2025
Accepted: 31 July 2025
First Online: 20 August 2025
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures involving human participants followed the ethical standards of the institutional research committee at which the study was conducted (Fukushima Medical University; IRB Approval Number #1485, #2771) and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was conducted following the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects enacted by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan (). According to these guidelines, investigators are not required to provide informed consent. Instead, we provided public information concerning the study on our website (). We ensured that there were opportunities for the research participants to refuse to use their personal information.
