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Authors
Chadani, Yoshihiro
Fujito, Ryoko
Kimura, Naohiro
Kawai, Ryo
Kashibayashi, Tetsuo
Takahashi, Ryuichi
Kanemoto, Hideki
Ishii, Kazunari
Tagai, Kenji
Shinagawa, Shunichiro
Ikeda, Manabu
Kazui, Hiroaki
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP21dk0207056)
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Article History
Received: 16 April 2024
Accepted: 28 August 2024
First Online: 12 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This retrospective study was approved by the ethics committee of the Kochi University Medical Hospital (Kochi, Japan) and Jikei University Hospital (Tokyo, Japan) and was conducted in accordance with the Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice and the Declaration of Helsinki. Considering the retrospective observational design of this study, wherein data were collected from medical records, an opt-out approach was used. In this approach, information regarding our study was provided on our homepage, and each participant’s consent for study participation was considered to be automatically obtained unless they expressed their desire to be excluded. The exemption on informed consent and adoption of the opt-out approach were approved by the ethics committee of Kochi University Medical Hospital.
