Ho, Dominic King Lun
Wong, Janet H. L.
Pelekos, Georgios
Deng, Ke
Tonetti, Maurizio S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2743-0137
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health and Medical Research Fund (07182796)
Article History
Received: 26 June 2020
Accepted: 4 December 2020
First Online: 14 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This article contains a retrospective study conducted on already available data. Ethics approval (UW-18-262) was granted by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/Hospital Authority of Hong Kong West Cluster (HKU/HA HKW IRB) to ensure that research complies with the Declaration of Helsinki and acts in accordance to IDH GCP guidelines, local regulations, and Hospital Authority and the University policies. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: For this type of study, formal consent is not required.