Xu, Qiaoqiao
Zhou, Zhiqiang
Ai, Ling
Liu, Jieqiong
Tian, Xuebi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0624-6816
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81974170, 81600938)
Article History
Received: 3 November 2020
Accepted: 5 May 2021
First Online: 12 May 2021
Declarations
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: The study was conducted accordance to the principles of Declaration of Helsinki. After obtaining institute ethical committee approval (referral number S308, dated Nov 22, 2017) at Tongji hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong Science and Technology University, the study was registered prospectively with Chinese Registry of Central Trial (ChiCTR-IOR-17014198) before the beginning of patient enrolment, and we obtained the informed consent which was written by all participants in the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declared that they had no competing interests.