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Article History

Received: 21 June 2022

Accepted: 27 October 2022

First Online: 20 November 2022

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was obtained from all the ethics committees in all participating centers, including The Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University; TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital; The First Affiliated Hospital, Xiamen University; Wuhan University People’s Hospital; The Second Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University; Taizhou Hospital, Zhejiang; Shanghai Chest Hospital; The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University; HuaXi Hospital of Sichuan University; Tianjin People’s Hospital; Hainan Provincial People’s Hospital; Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, and this study was a secondary analysis of randomized controlled trial, informed consent was not needed and waived by the ethics committee of 13 participating centers mentioned above because this is a retrospective study using available data.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.