Funding for this research was provided by:
Health and Medical Research Fund (16171001)
General Research Fund (14607319, 14609820)
Article History
Accepted: 24 May 2023
First Online: 19 June 2023
Declarations
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: All procedures followed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (the Survey and Behavioral Ethics Committee, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Reference No. SBRE-18-429)) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000.
: Informed Consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: Author XW, Author QL, Author SW and Author XY declare that they have no conflict of interest.