Fujii, Hitomi
Kodani, Eitaro
Kaneko, Tomohiro
Nakamura, Hiroyuki
Tamura, Yutaka
Sasabe, Hajime
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Tama City Medical Association
Article History
Received: 15 June 2025
Accepted: 4 February 2026
First Online: 8 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Due to the retrospective nature of the study, Institutional Review Board of Tama Center Mirai Clinic (no. 2024014) waived the need of obtaining informed consent. Tama City included information on the application form for the checkup explaining that participants’ anonymized data may be analyzed and published for public health research and that they have the right to opt out or refuse their consent. The same information was provided on the TAMA CITY Medical Association website. Our study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013). We obtained Institutional Review Board approval from the Tama Center Mirai Clinic (no. 2024014).