Kojima, Shinsuke
Kikuchi, Takashi
Kakei, Yasumasa
Kowa, Hisatomo
Yamamoto, Yasuji
Kajita, Hiroyuki
Osaki, Tohmi
Fukushima, Masanori
Kayano, Ryoma
Nagai, Yoji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0836-0495
Funding for this research was provided by:
World Health Organization Center for Health Development (K18001)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2022
Accepted: 19 September 2022
First Online: 29 November 2022
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee (Protocol No. 0002899); the Ethics Review Committee of the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan (Approval No. 16-06); and the Ethics Review Committee of the Kobe municipal office (Approval No. 29-2). This study was conducted in accordance with Japan’s “Ethical guidelines for medical and health research involving human subjects”, in which informed consent is waived for anonymized, retrospective data analysis.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.