Liu, Tong
Liu, Chen-An
Zhang, Qing-Song
Zhang, Qi
Wang, Yi-Ming
Song, Meng-Meng
Lin, Shi-Qi
Deng, Li
Wu, Shou-Ling
Shi, Han-Ping
Article History
Received: 7 November 2023
Accepted: 7 December 2023
First Online: 23 May 2024
Compliance and ethics
: The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest. This study was approved by the ethics committee of Kailuan General Hospital and Beijing Shijitan Hospital and adhered to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Participants or their legal representatives provided written informed consent. The Kailuan Study was retrospectively registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Register (ChiCTR) on 24 August, 2011 (ChiCTR-TNRC-11001489; ). The manuscript’s guarantor affirms that this manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned (and, if relevant, registered) have been explained.