Kawano, Nobuko
Terao, Takeshi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7545-4304
Sakai, Akari
Akase, Mari
Hatano, Koji
Shirahama, Masanao
Hirakawa, Hirofumi
Kohno, Kentaro
Ishii, Nobuyoshi
Article History
Received: 2 November 2020
Accepted: 15 January 2021
First Online: 1 February 2021
Consent for publication
: Not applicable.
: All participants provided written informed consent. The Institutional Review Board of the Oita University Faculty of Medicine approved the trial on Sep 14, 2016 (number B16-023). The protocols of the primary study conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki and were approved by the Oita University Ethics Committee. Since the purpose of the present study was included in those of the primary studies, secondary use of the data was assumed to be permitted.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.