Kanno, Shigenori
Ogawa, Kun-ichi
Kikuchi, Hiroaki
Toyoshima, Masako
Abe, Nobuhito
Sato, Kazushi
Miyazawa, Koichi
Oshima, Ryuji
Ohtomo, Satoru
Arai, Hiroaki
Shibuya, Satoshi
Suzuki, Kyoko
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (JP16K01447 and JP20K11202)
Health Labor Sciences Research (20GB1002 and 20GC1008)
Article History
Received: 9 June 2021
Accepted: 6 September 2021
First Online: 13 September 2021
Declarations
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: The protocol of this study was approved by the ethics committee of South Miyagi Medical Center (approval numbers: 28 − 7 and 29 − 1) and has therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards expressed in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All patients gave informed consent prior to participation in this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.