Deng, Linghui
Qiu, Shi
Wang, Changyi
Bian, Haiyang
Wang, Lu
Li, Yuxiao
Wu, Bo
Liu, Ming
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81620108009, 81671146)
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2016YFC1300500-505)
Article History
Received: 31 July 2018
Accepted: 31 March 2019
First Online: 13 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The datasets accessed were de-identified. Given the retrospective nature of the study, requirement for informed consent was waived by the Institution review board of the West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Peopleās Republic of China. Prof. Ming Liu granted permission to access the raw data from the registry. The procedure was approved by the Ethics Committee of the West China Hospital, Sichuan University.
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