Wu, Juan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6973-4641
Xu, Jianhua
Wang, Kang
Zhu, Qicui
Cai, Jingyu
Ren, Jiale
Zheng, Shuang
Ding, Changhai
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81172865)
Article History
Received: 12 August 2017
Accepted: 11 January 2018
First Online: 17 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the First Affiliated Hospital Anhui Medical University ethics committee (the ethics approval number: H1000589), and written informed consent was obtained from all participants according to the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Changhai Ding is a Deputy Section Editor of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.
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