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| 3 | Yoshimura, Noriko | 46 | 1,882 | 40.91 |
| 4 | Muraki, Shigeyuki | 44 | 1,853 | 42.11 |
| 5 | Nakamura, Kozo | 41 | 1,804 | 44.00 |
| 6 | Oka, Hiroyuki | 41 | 1,721 | 41.98 |
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The datasets used and analysed during the current study are available in Web of Science databases and included within the article and its additional files. The datasets supporting the conclusions of this article are included in the Supplementary materials.
This work was supported by the Capital’s Funds for Health Improvement and Research (CFH 2024-2-40611), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7242127), the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding (2024-NHLHCRF-PYI-01), Innovative Development Project for Young Orthopedic Physicians of the Orthopedic Medicine Research Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine (GSKQNJJ-2023-007, 2023-HX-141), the China-Japan Friendship Hospital Horizontal Project/Spontaneous Research Funding (2022-HX-JC-7, 2024-HX-6), the Elite Medical Professionals project of China-Japan Friendship Hospital (No. ZRJY2021-GG12), and the Joint Project of BRC-BC (Biomedical Translational Engineering Research Center of BUCT-CJFH) (RZ2020-02). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.
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