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Authors
Kobayashi, Yasuyuki
Sugimoto, Kotaro
Ishibashi, Minaka
Kobayashi, Makoto
Igari, Shohei
Kitamura, Shigeki
Yamamoto, Toshiyuki
Hashimoto, Yuko
Chiba, Hideki
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (23K07748)
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Article History
Received: 14 February 2025
Accepted: 10 May 2025
First Online: 10 July 2025
Declarations
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: All animal experiments conformed to the National Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the Animal Experiments Committee of Fukushima Medical University (approval code, 2024072; approval date, 7 Jun, 2024). The human studies were approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Fukushima Medical University (approval code, 2022-115; approval date, Sep 13, 2022) and were conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration or comparable standards. Informed consent (broad consent) was obtained from all of the participants in this study. Since it was conducted as a retrospective study using cases with a follow-up period of more than ten years, the patients had already died or stopped visiting the hospital. The experimental protocol has been disclosed on the website, and the patients or their representatives were able to decline to participate in the survey if they wanted.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
