Tanemura, Nanae
Sasaki, Tsuyoshi
Miyamoto, Ryotaro
Watanabe, Jin
Araki, Michihiro
Sato, Junko
Chiba, Tsuyoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C) 20K07260, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C) 20K07260)
Article History
Received: 13 February 2023
Accepted: 20 September 2023
First Online: 5 October 2023
Declarations
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: This study was approved on 2 December 2020 (no. 275) by the Ethics Committee for Research Involving Humans of the National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Japan. This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards established by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments. The view of the data providers (DIPEx-Japan) was that they explained and obtained written consent from the subjects stating that they would not be contacted on each occasion for secondary use of the anonymised information in the explanatory documents to the subjects. Therefore, the view of the data provider was that there was no need for the research institution receiving the existing information to opt out of the use of the anonymised information. Therefore, informed consent waiver for this study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Research Involving Humans of the National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Japan.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.