Nishioka, Daisuke
Saito, Junko
Ueno, Keiko
Kondo, Naoki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20K20774, 20K20774)
Article History
Received: 16 December 2022
Accepted: 3 October 2023
First Online: 11 October 2023
Declarations
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: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations of the Japanese governments and Declaration of Helsinki. The Ethics Committee of the Kyoto University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine waived the requirement for informed consent. The welfare offices of the municipalities agreed to provide anonymized data to the authors via a system company, which had provided management software for the public assistance database to the municipality welfare offices. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Kyoto University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine (approval no: R3356).
: Not applicable.
: Daisuke Nishioka (DN), Junko Saito (JS), and Keiko Ueno (KU) declare no competing interests associated with this manuscript. Naoki Kondo (NK) conducted collaborative research with Kitanihon Computer Service Co., Ltd. (KITACOM), which provided the data used in the present study. NK received research funds and scholarship donations from KITACOM.