Xu, Lingkai
Li, Lin
Xu, Dongkui
Qiu, Junlan
Feng, Qingting
Wen, Tao
Lu, Shun
Meng, Fang
Shu, Xiaochen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-5851
Funding for this research was provided by:
Scientific Research Foundation for Talented Scholars in Soochow University (Q413900215)
Article History
Received: 15 September 2020
Accepted: 15 December 2021
First Online: 13 January 2022
Declarations
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: No potential conflict of interests was reported by the authors.
: The written informed consent forms for participation and publication were obtained for all study participants. Information on individual record of all patients was de-identified prior to the analysis on order to preserve anonymity.
: Our research protocols were approved by the institutional review boards of Soochow University and the respective ethical committees at the participating hospitals. The present study was conducted according to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association regarding scientific research on human subjects.