Tsukuda, Tsukie Kin
Fujimoto, Minoru
Ohnishi, Hiroshi
Ooyama, Kousuke
Nakatani, Yu
Ito, Takehiko
Terada, Junki
Baba, Yuichi
Kubo, Toru
Yokoyama, Akihito
Naka, Tetsuji
Kozuki, Toshiyuki
Article History
Received: 17 January 2026
Accepted: 27 May 2026
First Online: 12 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kochi Medical School, Kochi University (approval numbers 2020 − 157 and 2020 − 102). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to enrolment. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.