Yang, Xiaoping
Dong, Mengshi
Li, Shu
Chai, Ruimei
Zhang, Zheng
Li, Nan
Zhang, Lina
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC1309100)
Article History
Received: 17 December 2019
Revised: 21 February 2020
Accepted: 9 April 2020
First Online: 29 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Lina Zhang.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise. And we applied for assistance from Professor Liu Hongbo, a professor of statistics in China Medical University.
: The local institutional review board approved this cross-sectional retrospective study and waived the necessity for written informed consent, as all data were part of the routine clinical patient workup.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: • retrospective• cross-sectional study• performed at one institution