Zheng, Ce
Xie, Xiaolin
Huang, Longtao
Chen, Binyao
Yang, Jianling
Lu, Jiewei
Qiao, Tong
Fan, Zhun
Zhang, Mingzhi
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81371010)
Clinical Research Funds of Shantou University Medical College (20130101)
Article History
Received: 28 August 2019
Revised: 2 November 2019
Accepted: 8 November 2019
First Online: 7 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: This study was conducted according to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and had the approval of the institutional review board.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.