Okamoto, Masaki
Yoshida, Akira
Zaizen, Yoshiaki
Ishida, Motoko
Shimizu, Toshimasa
Sakamoto, Noriho
Hozumi, Hironao
Yamano, Yasuhiko
Gono, Takahisa
Matsuo, Norikazu
Kaieda, Shinjiro
Kuwana, Masataka
Miyamura, Tomoya
Kawakami, Atsushi
Mukae, Hiroshi
Suda, Takafumi
Kondoh, Yasuhiro
Yamamoto, Ken
Hoshino, Tomoaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (22K08274)
Article History
Received: 2 August 2025
Accepted: 30 September 2025
First Online: 31 October 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kurume University School of Medicine and collaborative facilities in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration of 2013 (approval numbers 355 (September 18, 2018) and 416 (November 16, 2020)). Written informed consent was obtained from patients in the prospective cohort study, and opt-out informed consent was obtained from patients in the retrospective pilot study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.