Zhang, Xiang
Yang, Yi
Shen, Yi-Wei
Zhang, Ke-Rui
Jiang, Ze-kun
Ma, Li-Tai
Ding, Chen
Wang, Bei-Yu
Meng, Yang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Popularization and Application Project of the Sichuan Provincial Health Commission (21PJ037)
Article History
Received: 11 March 2022
Revised: 7 May 2022
Accepted: 8 June 2022
First Online: 27 June 2022
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Professor Hao Liu (MD, PhD) of West China Hospital, China.
: 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 (Yi Yang) has significant statistical expertise (6 years of experience in a systematic review and meta-analysis). Also, multiple authors have significant statistical expertise.
: No informed consent was needed for the conducting of this review.
: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because of the nature of the study (meta-analysis), which did not include specimens or involve any treatments or interventions.
: All of the included studies have been previously reported, either as an original research paper.
: • Systematic review• Meta-analysis• Performed at one institution