Yoshida, Shuhei
Kashima, Saori
Okazaki, Yuji
Matsumoto, Masatoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Institute for Health Economics and Policy, Japan (NA)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP19K19388)
Article History
Received: 7 September 2022
Accepted: 3 February 2023
First Online: 8 February 2023
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the institutional review board of Hiroshima University (No. E-1688). This study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The need to obtain informed consent from each subject was waived, as this was a retrospective review of the subjects’ records according to the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects in Japan. The name of the ethics committee that waived the requirement of informed consent was the Ethics Committee for Epidemiological Research at Hiroshima University.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.