Nicholls, John Malcolm
Lee, Victor Ho-Fun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6283-978X
Chan, Sik-Kwan
Tsang, Ka-Chun
Choi, Cheuk-Wai
Kwong, Dora Lai-Wan
Lam, Ka-On
Chan, Sum-Yin
Tong, Chi-Chung
So, Tsz-Him
Leung, To-Wai
Luk, Mai-Yee
Khong, Pek-Lan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9280-6778
Lee, Anne Wing-Mui
Funding for this research was provided by:
Croucher Foundation (Nil)
Article History
Received: 7 April 2019
Revised: 19 August 2019
Accepted: 27 August 2019
First Online: 17 September 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster (HKU/HA HKW IRB) (IRB/REC No. UW 12-153). The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Individual written informed consent was obtained from all participating patients at enrolment.
: This work was supported by Croucher Foundation and SK Yee Medical Foundation (210212, 211259 and 213208). The funder has no role in study design and conception, data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation, manuscript drafting, final manuscript approval and publication of this study.
: We have provided our consent to publish.
: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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