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Okui, Tasuku
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP22K17372)
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Article History
Received: 18 October 2024
Accepted: 7 August 2025
First Online: 24 September 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Kyushu University Institutional Review Board for Clinical Research (No. 24018-00). In addition, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan permitted use of the data. Moreover, informed consent was not required for this study because we used the official statistics data that were provided from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare on the basis of the Statistics Act in Japan.
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: The author declares no competing interests.
