Qiu, Kai https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-9565
Hang, Yu
Lv, Penghua
Liu, Ying
Li, Mingchao
Zhao, Liandong
Zhai, Qijin
Chen, Jinan
Jia, Zhenyu
Cao, Yuezhou
Zhao, Linbo
Shi, Haibin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1293-5789
Liu, Sheng https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4058-4413
Funding for this research was provided by:
Social Development Projects of Jiangsu Province (BE2022809)
Article History
Received: 30 November 2024
Revised: 20 February 2025
Accepted: 24 February 2025
First Online: 4 March 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and with the 2008 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol followed the guidelines of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University (Ethical review no. 2021-NT-28). For this retrospective study, informed consent was not required.
: We confirm that manuscript complies with all instructions to authors.We confirm that authorship requirements have been met and the final manuscript was approved by all authors.For any data included in the study that could potentially identify an individual, specific consent for publication was obtained.
: The authors declare no competing interests.