Zhao, Pingsen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5178-3664
Liu, Sudong
Zhong, Zhixiong
Hou, Jingyuan
Lin, Lifang
Weng, Ruiqiang
Su, Luxian
Lei, Nanxiang
Hou, Tao
Yang, Haikun
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0050405, 2017YFD0501705)
Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (A2016306)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (2016A030307031, 2014A030307042)
Key Scientific and Technological Project of Meizhou People’s Hospital, Guangdong Province, China (MPHKSTP-20170102)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2017
Accepted: 20 April 2018
First Online: 3 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Human Ethics Committees of Meizhou People’s Hospital (Huangtang Hospital), Meizhou Hospital Affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Province, China. All patients provided written informed consent to participate. For the sake of privacy, data were de-identified before analysis.
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