Ishida, Yoshiaki
Homma, Yoichiro
Kawamura, Takashi
Sagawa, Masatoshi
Toba, Yoshie
Article History
Received: 8 December 2021
Accepted: 10 June 2022
First Online: 16 June 2022
Declarations
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: This study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The Institutional Review Board, which is also the research ethics committee, of Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital approved this single-center retrospective cohort study (approval number: 3570; February 17, 2021) and waived the requirement for written informed consent. Study information was available on the hospital website, allowing participants the opportunity to optāout; patients who did not opt-out were included in this study. This manuscript adhered to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology statement guidelines.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.