Oka, Hideaki
Sakurai, Yuko
Kamimura, Taro
Murakami, Taichi
Sato, Takeshi
Kitazono, Takanari
Nakano, Toshiaki http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9235-5615
Article History
Received: 1 February 2024
Accepted: 9 June 2024
First Online: 18 July 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted [local ethics committee of Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital (No. 973), local ethics committee of Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital (No. 04-28), local ethics committee of Ozu City Hospital (No. 3)] and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study waived the requirement for written informed consent due to the retrospective nature of this study. Rather, the research content has been included on the web page of our hospital ().
: Informed consent to publish was not sought as this contained no patient identification data.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.