Nakai-Uchida, Mai
Uchida, Masato
Tamura, Shinobu
Kubo, Atsushi
Kunitatsu, Kosei
Nakashima, Tsuyoshi
Horitani, Ryosuke
Kajimoto, Yoshinori
Inoue, Shigeaki
Hironishi, Masaya
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (23K07865)
2023 Wakayama Medical University Special Grant-in-Aid for Research Projects (K23TS03)
Article History
Received: 5 July 2025
Accepted: 29 August 2025
First Online: 24 September 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Wakayama Medical University Ethics Committee (Approval no. 4196, approved on July 16, 2024) and the Meiji University of Integrative Medicine Ethics Committee (Approval no. 2024-043, approved on January 30, 2025). The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. The requirement for informed consent was waived due to the retrospective design of the study and the use of use of publicly available de-identified data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.