Kusunoki, Takuya
Yoshikawa, Tohru
Funding for this research was provided by:
JST SPRING (JPMJSP2156)
The general research fund of Tokyo Metropolitan University
JSPS KAKENHI (JP21H03157)
Article History
Received: 10 May 2023
Accepted: 8 February 2024
First Online: 20 February 2024
Declarations
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: Since the study was a secondary data analysis of publicly available data, therefore, participants’ consent was not necessary. Our study was approved by the ethics committee of Utsunomiya University (Registration number: H21-0085), which is the accepting institution of JSPS KAKENHI (Grant No. JP21H03157) mentioned in the funding section. All research activities were carried out in agreement with the editorial policies of BMC. The primary data are freely available on the website of references shown in "sources" in Tables InternalRef removed and InternalRef removed.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.