Tun, Tin Zar
Thwin, Kaung Myat
Takehara, Sachiko
Minagawa, Kumiko
Kaneko, Noboru
Ogawa, Hiroshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Futoku Foundation
JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JP19K10439)
Article History
Received: 8 December 2024
Accepted: 12 May 2025
First Online: 21 May 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors declare that there are no competing interests. The study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, preparation of the manuscript, and choice to publish the findings were all made independently of the funders.
: All study procedures involving study participants were approved by the Niigata University Ethics Committee of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki (2021/11/10) (Reg no. 2021/0172), and all participants provided written informed consent before the study procedure. The participants were free to revoke their consent at any time. All data and information were stored in a secure location and assigned a coded ID number to ensure confidentiality, and all procedures were conducted according to the relevant guidelines.