Zheng, Yixi
Jing, Tianyu
Xu, Liwen
Sun, Shutong
Yu, Wenyi
Liu, Ruonan
Xu, Gang
Chu, Cheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Yangzhou Municipality (YZ2017111)
Article History
Received: 19 October 2024
Accepted: 12 September 2025
First Online: 16 October 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The studies involving humans were approved by the Ethics Committee of Yangzhou University (Ethics 2023-YKL09). The studies were conducted in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements. The Ethics Committee (Medical Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University) waived the requirement of written informed consent for participation from the participants or the participants’ legal guardians or next of kin because this study is retrospective and we had to forgo signing the informed consent.