Liu, Shuai
Hou, Mingyu
Yao, Yu
Mei, Jingchang
Sun, Lijiang
Zhang, Guiming
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2021MH354)
Medical and health research program of Qingdao (2021-WJZD170)
Clinical Medicine + X Project of The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University (No. QDFY+X2021029)
Article History
Received: 6 January 2024
Accepted: 29 February 2024
First Online: 30 March 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: This study was conducted in compliance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University. All patients involved in the present study provided signed informed consent.
: All authors consent to the publication of this manuscript. The patient informed consent form also included a section on consenting to the publication of the patients’ anonymized data.