He, Wu
Xu, Ke
Yan, Yongcui
Li, Gen
Yu, Bo
Wu, Junfang
Zhong, Kaineng
Zhou, Da
Wang, Dao Wen
Article History
Received: 5 August 2024
Accepted: 16 December 2024
First Online: 4 March 2025
Compliance with ethics guidelines
: Conflicts of interest Wu He, Ke Xu, Yongcui Yan, Gen Li, Bo Yu, Junfang Wu, Kaineng Zhong, Da Zhou, and Dao Wen Wang declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Dao Wen Wang is a member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers of Medicine, who 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 minimise bias.
: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Tongji Medical College (No. TJ-IRB20210138) and the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Due to the retrospective nature of this study and the anonymity of its participants, the ethics committee waived the requirement for written informed consent.