Lee, Elaine Y. P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0627-5297
An, He https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6012-9549
Perucho, Jose A. U. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6088-3173
Chiu, Keith W. H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7930-1193
Hui, Edward S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1761-0169
Chu, Mandy M. Y. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1525-0147
Ngan, Hextan Y. S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3945-159X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health and Medical Research Fund (03143616, 03143616, 03143616)
Article History
Received: 12 January 2020
Revised: 13 March 2020
Accepted: 9 April 2020
First Online: 13 May 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
:
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Elaine YP LEE.
: Dr. Elaine YP Lee, Dr. Edward S Hui and Prof. Hextan YS Ngan were investigators of the research grant from Health and Medical Research Fund, Hong Kong (No. 03143616), which supported this study. The rest of authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: This prospective cohort study was approved by local Institutional Research Ethics Committee (HKU/HA HKW IRB UW 15-536).
: • prospective• observational• performed at one institution