Wang, Yingbin
Zhang, Yu
Yao, Guihua
Tang, Hong
Chen, Lixin
Yin, Lixue
Zhu, Tiangang
Yuan, Jianjun
Han, Wei
Yang, Jun
Shu, Xianhong
Yang, Ya
Wei, Yulin
Guo, Yanli
Ren, Weidong
Gao, Dongmei
Lu, Guilin
Wu, Ji
Yin, Hongning
Mu, Yuming
Tian, Jiawei
Yuan, Lijun
Ma, Xiaojing
Dai, Hongyan
Ding, Yunchuan
Ding, Mingyan
Zhou, Qing
Wang, Hao
Xu, Di
Zhang, Mei
Zhang, Yun
Article History
Received: 16 May 2023
Accepted: 23 October 2023
First Online: 18 May 2024
Compliance with ethics guidelines
: <b>Conflict of interest</b> Yingbin Wang, Yu Zhang, Guihua Yao, Hong Tang, Lixin Chen, Lixue Yin, Tiangang Zhu, Jianjun Yuan, Wei Han, Jun Yang, Xianhong Shu, Ya Yang, Yulin Wei, Yanli Guo, Weidong Ren, Dongmei Gao, Guilin Lu, Ji Wu, Hongning Yin, Yuming Mu, Jiawei Tian, Lijun Yuan, Xiaojing Ma, Hongyan Dai, Yunchuan Ding, Mingyan Ding, Qing Zhou, Hao Wang, Di Xu, and Mei Zhang declare that they have no conflict of interest. Yun Zhang, a member of the Editorial Board of <i>Frontiers of Medicine</i>, was excluded from the peer-review process and all editorial decisions related to the acceptance and publication of this article. Peer review was handled independently by the other editors to minimize bias.
: This study was registered as ChiCTR-OCS-12002119 at the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry. It is an authorized registry organization of the International Clinical Trial Registry Platform of the World Health Organization. The study was approved by the ethical committees of all collaborating centers and the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 <i>Declaration of Helsinki</i> and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all volunteers participating in this study.