Yang, Tianning
Zhang, Ling
Sun, Siyi
Yao, Xuexin
Wang, Lichuan
Ge, Yanlei
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hebei Province Science Development Program (20201246)
Article History
Received: 29 February 2024
Accepted: 5 September 2024
First Online: 19 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of North China University of Science and Technology (Approval No. 20220730005). The research was conducted following the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki principles and its later amendments or similar ethical standards. The Institutional Review Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of North China University of Science and Technology waived informed consent due to the retrospective nature of our study. Measures were implemented to ensure the confidentiality and anonymity of the data collected, in accordance with appropriate privacy protection protocols.