Ma, Xiaohong
Wei, Jingwei
Gu, Dongsheng
Zhu, Yongjian
Feng, Bing
Liang, Meng
Wang, Shuang
Zhao, Xinming
Tian, Jie http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-0432
Funding for this research was provided by:
CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-1-001)
PUMC Youth Fund (2017320010)
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Research Fund (ZZ2016B01)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81227901, 61231004)
National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0205200, 2017YFC1309100)
Article History
Received: 26 September 2018
Revised: 5 December 2018
Accepted: 18 December 2018
First Online: 15 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Jie Tian.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Jingwei Wei kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript.One of the authors (Dongsheng Gu) has significant statistical expertise.No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the institutional review board.
: Institutional review board approval was obtained.
: • Retrospective• Diagnostic or prognostic study• Performed at one institution