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"Conflict of Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships: K.M. has received a research fund and lecture fees from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc. S.K., Y.H., and A.K. are employees of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc. K.Mu. declares no conflict of interest."

"Funding This work was supported by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc."

"Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (No. 1409). This study was registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trial Registry (UMIN000041222). Individual patient informed consent was not obtained because all individuals’ personal and site information used in this study were anonymized and classified as anonymously processed information under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of 2003 as amended in 2020. Informed consent was not, therefore, required."