Bao, Yijun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2149-0112
Li, Lizhuo
Guan, Yanlei
Liu, Yan
Wang, Wei
Zhao, Dan
Tao, Shanwei
Ling, Yuhui
Wang, Yan
Bi, Bo
Wu, Anhua
Cao, Liu
Funding for this research was provided by:
This project was sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry (2013-1792)
Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2015020460)
Foundation for Science and Technology of Shenyang (17-230-9-13)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M590240)
Fund for Scientific Research of The First Hospital of China Medical University (FSFH201722)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81660329)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81302190)
Article History
Received: 15 January 2018
Accepted: 13 June 2018
First Online: 25 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee on Human Experimentation of China Medical University. The study procedures followed ethical standards. Written informed consent was received from all the patients after they were orally informed about the study protocol. All participants were voluntary and anonymous. Confidentiality was ensured in processing personal data and maintaining individual records.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interests.