Zheng, Fang
Chen, Ruochan
Yao, Run
Huang, Yaxiong
Tan, Xin
Liu, Jiyang
Li, Ning
Xie, Yuanlin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan Province
Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province
Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Innovation-Driven Project of Central South University
Article History
Received: 24 March 2021
Accepted: 13 May 2021
First Online: 10 June 2021
Funding
: The collection, analysis and interpretation of data and writing the manuscript were supported by grants from Innovative Major Emergency Project Funding against the New Coronavirus Pneumonia in Changsha City and Hunan Province (nos. 2020SK3013, 2020SK3014, 2020SK3045, kq2001006 and kq2001053), National Natural Sciences Foundation of Hunan province (no. 2019JJ30041), National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NO. 82070613) and Innovation-Driven Project of Central South University (NO.2020CX044). The journal’s Rapid Service Fee was funded by the authors.
: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this study, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole and have given their approval for this version to be published.
: Fang Zheng, Yuanlin Xie, Ning Li, and Jiyang Liu designed the study. Fang Zheng, Xin Tan and Yaxiong Huang collected the data. Ruochan Chen and Run Yao analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
: Fang Zheng, Ruochan Chen, Run Yao, Yaxiong Huang, Xin Tan, Jiyang Liu, Ning Li and Yuanlin Xie declare that they have no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of First Hospital of Changsha (KL-2020006). The study was conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and the principles of Good Clinical Practice. All patients provided written informed consent to include their clinical and biological data in the manuscript for scientific purposes. Data of the patients submitted were anonymized.
: The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.