Pan, Xiao-Yan
Liu, Wen-Yue
Zhu, Pei-Wu
Li, Gang
Tang, Liang-Jie
Gao, Feng
Huang, Ou-Yang
Yuan, Hai-Yang
Targher, Giovanni
Byrne, Christopher D.
Wang, Xiao-Dong
Zheng, Ming-Hua http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4984-2631
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82070588)
Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (IS-BRC-20004)
Article History
Received: 22 April 2022
Accepted: 14 June 2022
First Online: 13 July 2022
Declarations
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: All the authors (Xiao-Yan Pan, Wen-Yue Liu, Pei-Wu Zhu, Gang Li, Liang-Jie Tang, Feng Gao, Ou-Yang Huang, Hai-Yang Yuan, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Xiao-Dong Wang, Ming-Hua Zheng) declare that they do not have anything to disclose regarding any funding or conflict of interest with respect to this manuscript.
: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the ethics committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. All procedures performed in studies 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.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.