Liu, Xinchun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3796-9520
Fu, Yue
Chen, Qiuyang
Wu, Junli
Gao, Wentao
Jiang, Kuirong
Miao, Yi
Wei, Jishu
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81672449)
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20161590)
International exchange and cooperation projects of Nanjing Medical University (C046)
Article History
Received: 6 August 2018
Accepted: 23 October 2018
First Online: 6 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the institutional review board at The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (No. 2016-SR-210). Due to the retrospective nature of this study and all data was retrieved from medical records without additional blood samples or biochemical analysis, informed consent from individual participants was waived.
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