Zhao, Siqi
Li, Yuanfei
Ning, Ning
Liang, Hongbing
Wu, Yueqi
Wu, Qi
Wang, Zhuo
Tian, Jiahe
Yang, Jie
Gao, Xue
Liu, Ailian
Song, Qingwei
Zhang, Lina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2242-9249
Article History
Received: 31 July 2023
Revised: 3 December 2023
Accepted: 1 January 2024
First Online: 9 February 2024
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Lina Zhang.
: 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.
: Siqi Zhao, Yuanfei Li, and Jie Yang kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because the study is a meta-analysis, and outcome data was published previously.<b>Ethical approval</b>The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Hospital of Dalian Medical University (IRB number: PJ- KS-KY-2022-50).
: All study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported, as this is a meta-analysis study.
: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution