He, Panpan
Li, Huan
Liu, Mengyi
Zhang, Zhuxian
Zhang, Yuanyuan
Zhou, Chun
Ye, Ziliang
Wu, Qimeng
Liang, Min
Jiang, Jianping
Wang, Guobao
Nie, Jing
Hou, Fan Fan
Liu, Chengzhang
Qin, Xianhui
Article History
Received: 9 February 2022
Accepted: 21 April 2022
First Online: 23 December 2022
Compliance with ethics guidelines
: Panpan He, Huan Li, Mengyi Liu, Zhuxian Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Chun Zhou, Ziliang Ye, Qimeng Wu, Min Liang, Jianping Jiang, Guobao Wang, Jing Nie, Fan Fan Hou, Chengzhang Liu, and Xianhui Qin declare no conflict of interest. The Institutional Review Boards of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, approved the study. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the <i>Helsinki Declaration</i> of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.