Zhou, Zhou
Liu, Xue-qi
Zhang, Shi-qi
Qi, Xiang-ming
Zhang, Qiu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0204-3528
Yard, Benito
Wu, Yong-gui http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6434-4759
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81761138042)
Article History
Received: 8 September 2020
Accepted: 29 March 2021
First Online: 3 April 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest associated with this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1984 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (Hefei, China, approval no.: PJ2018-05-09). All patients gave their written informed consent prior to study.