Liu, Fang
Rong, Xinxin
Guo, Hui
Xu, Dong
Liu, Chang
Meng, Lingling
Yang, Xiaoqian
Guo, Tingting
Kan, Xuefeng
Song, Yuhu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1952-654X
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81570555, 81270506)
Clinical Research Physician Program of Tongji Medical College, HUST (2017)
Article History
Received: 17 June 2019
Accepted: 28 January 2020
First Online: 4 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the ethics committee of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (IORG0003571) prior to data collection. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. This study is a retrospective analysis, it did not include any human trial, and as such no informed consent from patients was needed.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.