Wang, Fangjun
Lü, Qi
Wang, Min
Xu, Hongchun
Xie, Dan
Yang, Zheng
Ye, Qin
Article History
Received: 5 October 2023
Accepted: 28 January 2024
First Online: 2 February 2024
Declarations
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: This randomized controlled clinical study was approved by the ethics committee of Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College (2016ER(R)-002) and registered with the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ExternalRef removed; Principal investigator: Fangjun Wang, Date of registration: 28/07/2016, Registration number: ChiCTR-INR-16008933) prior to patient enrolment. All procedures performed in this study followed ethical standards of research and the Declaration of Helsinki. Participants received oral and written information about the observational study prior to inclusion and signed informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.