Otani, Koji
Watanabe, Toshio
Takahashi, Kanae
Nadatani, Yuji
Ominami, Masaki
Fukunaga, Shusei
Hosomi, Shuhei
Kamata, Noriko
Tanaka, Fumio
Nagami, Yasuaki
Taira, Koichi
Kimura, Tatsuo
Fukumoto, Shinya
Fujiwara, Yasuhiro
Article History
Received: 4 March 2023
Accepted: 24 April 2023
First Online: 3 May 2023
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine (No. 3928) on December 27, 2017. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant included in the study. We disclosed information about this study on the webpage of the institution, and the participants had the opportunity to opt out. This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki for medical research involving human subjects and the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines for observational studies.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.