Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2022CFB370)
Article History
Received: 7 October 2023
Accepted: 4 March 2024
First Online: 5 April 2024
Declarations
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: Drs. Xiaogang Li, Yuan Zhu, Huapeng Sun, and Xiaofeng Liao have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: The Ethics Committee of Xiangyang Central Hospital approved this study. Informed consent was not needed from patients because of the retrospective nature of the study. During the research process, we concealed patients’ private information, and patient privacy was protected.