Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (T.N. 26293372)
JST Center for Revitalization Promotion and KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for young scientists (K.O. 17K16957)
the Public Trust Suda Memorial Fund for Glaucoma Research
Article History
Received: 31 October 2019
Accepted: 27 April 2020
First Online: 24 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine (study 2017-1-290) . Written patient’s informed consent was not required because the ethics committee allowed us to obtain data retrospectively from patients’ records under insured medical treatment and approved to carry out by opt-out method. No patient was individually identified in this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests except for co-author TK. Co-author TK is employed by Topcon Corporation, a commercial company but has no conflicts of interest associated with the content of this article.