Chen, Yao
Hu, Yanyan
Zhang, Jin
Shen, Yue
Huang, Junling
Yin, Jun
Wang, Ping
Fan, Ying
Wang, Jianli
Lu, Su
Yang, Yilin
Yan, Lei
Li, Keyong
Song, Zhenju http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9294-8824
Tong, Chaoyang
Du, Shilin
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81471840, 81171837)
the Shanghai Traditional Medicine Development Project (ZY3-CCCX3-3018)
the Shanghai Traditional Medicine Development Project (ZHYY-ZXYJH-201615)
Key Project of Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau (2016ZB0202)
the Shanghai Municipal Planning Commission of science and Research Fund (20134Y023)
Article History
Received: 23 December 2018
Accepted: 13 September 2019
First Online: 18 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The clinical study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee Study Board of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (record number 2006–23). The Ethics Committee also granted administrative permission to access and use patients’ data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.