Miyazaki, Yuta
Oba, Junna
Ishikawa, Tetsuo
Kawakami, Michiyuki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6459-3325
Kondo, Kunitsugu
Hirabe, Akiko
Tsujikawa, Masahiro
Honaga, Kaoru
Robertson, A. Gordon
Woodman, Scott E.
Tsuji, Tetsuya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP25K21344)
Article History
Received: 12 November 2025
Accepted: 22 March 2026
First Online: 9 April 2026
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of Tokyo Bay Rehabilitation Hospital (approval number 267-7). Given the retrospective design and use of anonymized data, the ethics committee waived the requirement for informed consent. An opt-out procedure was employed, with study details published on the hospital’s website to enable participants to withdraw.
: Not applicable.
: MK is the founding scientist of the startup company INTEP Inc., which has no relationship with this study. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.