Wada, Yasuhiro
Nakajima, Shigemi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1386-0985
Mori, Naoko
Takemura, Shizuki
Chatani, Rena
Ohara, Mariko
Fujii, Makoto
Hasegawa, Hiroshi
Hayafuji, Kiyoyuki
Kushima, Ryoji
Murakami, Kazunari
Article History
Received: 11 January 2022
Accepted: 30 March 2022
First Online: 11 April 2022
Declarations
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: We conducted the present study according to the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects issued from the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2015. The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of JCHO Shiga Hospital (approval number 2018-16).
: The present study is a retrospective observational study and the study participants did not give written informed consent. Those who wanted to withdraw from the study were given a chance to opt out of the study as recommended by the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects issued from the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Table and figures did not contain any non-anonymous data.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.