Ihara, Yasutaka
Kihara, Hisafumi
Imoto, Waki
Okada, Naoto
Kakeya, Hiroshi
Kaneko, Yukihiro
Article History
Received: 10 July 2025
Accepted: 30 September 2025
First Online: 27 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval was waived for this human study because the Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Biological Research Involving Human Subjects do not apply to clinical studies that use data anonymized before study initiation. The data analyzed in this study were anonymized before initiation by Medical Data Vision Co., Ltd. Adult participant consent was not required because all records were fully de-identified at the source and could not be linked to individual patients, and written informed consent was likewise unnecessary.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.