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Authors
Mine, Hayato
Sugimoto, Kotaro
Kobayashi, Makoto
Takagi, Hironori
Okabe, Naoyuki
Muto, Satoshi
Kobayashi, Yasuyuki
Hashimoto, Yuko
Suzuki, Hiroyuki
Chiba, Hideki
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22K08896, 23H02703)
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Article History
Received: 23 July 2024
Accepted: 15 April 2025
First Online: 23 April 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Fukushima Medical University (approval code, 2020-058; approval date, Mar 16, 2021). The research was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration or comparable standards. Informed consent (broad consent) was obtained from all of the participants in this study. Since it was conducted as a retrospective study using cases with a follow-up period of more than five years, the patients had already died or stopped visiting the hospital. The experimental protocol has been disclosed on the website, and the patients or their representatives were able to decline to participate in the survey if they wanted.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
