Funding for this research was provided by:
Tianjin Key Medical Discipline (Specialty) Construction Project (TJYXZDXK-033A)
CAS International Cooperation Research Program (153111KYSB20190004)
Article History
Received: 1 August 2023
Accepted: 19 January 2024
First Online: 15 March 2024
Declarations
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: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the First Clinical Medical College, Shanxi Medical University (No. 2016-Y27). The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.