Zhang, Kai
Dai, Yue
Liu, Yajie
Tao, Juan
Pan, Ziang
Xie, Lizhi
Wang, Shaowu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2221-1154
Article History
Received: 17 September 2021
Revised: 28 January 2022
Accepted: 11 February 2022
First Online: 12 March 2022
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the second Hospital of Dalian Medical University.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: One of the authors (Lizhi Xie) is an employee of GE Healthcare. The remaining authors declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Shaowu Wang, MD, PHD.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: • prospective• case-control study/diagnostic study• performed at one institution