Ikumi, Saori
Shiga, Takuya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7303-3653
Takaya, Eichi
Sonobe, Shinya
Kaiho, Yu
Ito, Yukiko
Yamauchi, Masanori
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (JP19K18311, JP24K23481)
Institute for Health Economics and Policy
Article History
Received: 22 July 2025
Revised: 16 September 2025
Accepted: 18 September 2025
First Online: 21 October 2025
Declarations
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: This retrospective analysis of clinical data complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the ethics committee of Tohoku University Hospital (2017-1-562 [8384]), who issued a waiver for written consent for the study because the participants had been provided with an opt-out option before the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.