Taniguchi, Shinichi
Abe, Atsushi
Ito, Yu
Ishihama, Takanori
Hayashi, Hiroki
Momokita, Moeko
Naito, Ryuta
Shibata, Kanae
Article History
Received: 1 November 2021
Accepted: 4 April 2022
First Online: 11 April 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and in line with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital (No. 2021-017). All patients and volunteers were informed of the aims of the study and provided their written consent before participation. The study was conducted in accordance with the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guidelines. The ethics committee approved the procedure of this study and gave us administrative permissions to access the data used in this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.