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"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors report that there are no competing interests to declare. There are no specific statements and declarations about this article. Ethical approvalThe study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Konan Women’s University (approval number: 2019030). The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Statement of human and animal rightsThis study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Konan Women’s University (approval number: 2019030). Informed consentInformed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Conflict of interest The authors report that there are no competing interests to declare. There are no specific statements and declarations about this article."

"Funding This work was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI (Grant number: 21K11182). The funding source was not involved in the study design or execution nor in the preparation of the manuscript."