Uemura, Kohei
Ono, Sachiko
Michihata, Nobuaki
Yamana, Hayato
Yasunaga, Hideo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (21nf0101636h0001, 21nf0101636h0001, 21nf0101636h0001, 21nf0101636h0001, 21nf0101636h0001)
Article History
Received: 7 March 2024
Accepted: 10 June 2024
First Online: 28 June 2024
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo (approval no. 2021187NI-(3)). Because our analyses involved the secondary use of anonymized data that had been routinely collected by the local government in Japan, the need for individual informed consent was waived in accordance with the current ethical guidelines for medical and health research involving human participants in Japan.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.