Huang, Luyu
Lin, Weihuan
Xie, Daipeng
Yu, Yunfang
Cao, Hanbo
Liao, Guoqing
Wu, Shaowei
Yao, Lintong
Wang, Zhaoyu
Wang, Mei
Wang, Siyun
Wang, Guangyi
Zhang, Dongkun
Yao, Su
He, Zifan
Cho, William Chi-Shing
Chen, Duo
Zhang, Zhengjie
Li, Wanshan
Qiao, Guibin
Chan, Lawrence Wing-Chi
Zhou, Haiyu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3328-6792
Funding for this research was provided by:
Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital Intermural Program (KJ012019447)
Guangdong Province Medical Scientific Research Foundation (B2018148)
Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (201903010028)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong (2018A0303130113)
Health and Medical Research Fund of Food and Health Bureau (HMRF 02131026;HMRF 16172561)
Article History
Received: 20 October 2020
Revised: 23 July 2021
Accepted: 6 August 2021
First Online: 16 October 2021
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Zhou.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article. The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study; the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
: One of the authors (D. Chen) has significant statistical expertise.
: Since the retrospective design of this study, the written informed consent was waived by the institutional review board.
: Institutional review board approval was obtained. The study protocol was approved by academic ethics committees and conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki and good clinical practice guidelines. The present study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (registration number NCT04452058).
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