Ikuta, Keiko
Nakagawa, Shunsaku
Yamawaki, Chinami
Itohara, Kotaro
Hira, Daiki
Imai, Satoshi
Yonezawa, Atsushi
Nakagawa, Takayuki
Sakuragi, Minoru
Sato, Noriaki
Uchino, Eiichiro
Yanagita, Motoko
Terada, Tomohiro
Article History
Received: 29 August 2022
Accepted: 15 November 2022
First Online: 30 November 2022
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kyoto University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine on April 26,2021 (R2957). The need for Informed Consent was waived by the same ethics committee (Ethics Committee of Kyoto University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine) that approved the study due to the retrospective nature of the study. However, general information about the study was provided on hospital bulletin boards and website. It was stated that if potential participants offered to refuse enrolment in the study, they would not be included in the study. No one offered to refuse to be included in the study. All experiments were performed in accordance with the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines and Declaration of Helsinki guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests<b>.</b>