Nara, Satoshi
Bunya, Naofumi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3605-402X
Ohnishi, Hirofumi
Sawamoto, Keigo
Uemura, Shuji
Kokubu, Nobuaki
Hase, Mamoru
Narimatsu, Eichi
Asai, Yasufumi
Tahara, Yoshio
Atsumi, Takahiro
Nagao, Ken
Morimura, Naoto
Sakamoto, Tetsuya
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Article History
Received: 26 May 2023
Accepted: 27 September 2023
First Online: 6 October 2023
Declarations
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: The SAVE-J study was registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry and the Japanese Clinical Trial Registry (registration number: UMIN000001403). This secondary analysis of de-identified data was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Sapporo Medical University Hospital (approval number: 342-163). The requirement for patient consent was waived because of the anonymized data provided in the sub-analysis of the SAVE-J study. The procedures were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: TS reports the grant from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan. All other authors declare no competing interests.