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Article History

Received: 22 May 2023

Revised: 12 September 2023

Accepted: 13 September 2023

First Online: 4 November 2023

Declarations

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: The Ethics Committee of the First affiliated hospital of Nanjing Medical University has approved this study (No: 2021-SR-242) in accordance with its ethical guidelines and standards for research involving human subjects.

: The authors of this observational study have obtained informed consent from each patient prior to their participation in the research. This involved providing clear and comprehensive information about the study, including its purpose, methods, confidentiality measures, and the right to withdraw at any time without consequences. Patients were given enough time to consider this information and ask any questions they had before deciding whether to participate.

: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.

: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.