Bao, Xue https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-5988
Borné, Yan
Muhammad, Iram Faqir
Schulz, Christina-Alexandra
Persson, Margaretha
Orho-Melander, Marju
Niu, Kaijun
Christensson, Anders
Engström, Gunnar
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Medical Research Council of Sweden (K2011-65X-20752-04-6 and 2014-2265)
the Swedish Heart–Lung Foundation (2013-0249 and 2016-0315)
the China Scholarship Council (201706940044)
Article History
Received: 25 May 2018
Accepted: 6 February 2019
First Online: 21 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in this study was in accordance with the ethical standards of the ethics committee at Lund University Lund, Sweden (LU 51/90) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standard. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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