Wu, Di
Wang, Peng
Han, Meifang
Chen, Yongping
Chen, Xinyue
Xia, Qi
Yan, Weiming
Wan, Xiaoyang
Zhu, Chuanlong
Xie, Qing
Jiang, Jiaji
Wei, Lai
Tan, Deming
Dou, Xiaoguang
Yu, Yanyan
Hou, Jinlin
Luo, Xiaoping
Ning, Qin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2027-9593
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Chinese National Twelfth Five Years Project in Science and Technology (2013ZX10002003)
the Chinese National Thirteenth Five Years Project in Science and Technology (2017ZX10202201)
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2018CFB206)
Article History
Received: 28 November 2018
Accepted: 18 May 2019
First Online: 6 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: The study was performed in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and the Declaration of Helsinki principles for ethical research. The study protocol was approved by the independent central ethics committee of Tongji Medical College at Wuhan. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02360592. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5).
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.