Hu, Yang
Sun, Jing-yi
Zhang, Yan
Zhang, Haihua
Gao, Shan
Wang, Tao
Han, Zhifa
Wang, Longcai
Sun, Bao-liang
Liu, Guiyou
Funding for this research was provided by:
Academic Promotion Programme of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences (No. 2019QL016, No. 2019PT007)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82071212)
Article History
Received: 13 August 2020
Accepted: 8 December 2020
First Online: 19 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This article contains human participants collected by several studies performed by previous studies. All participants gave informed consent in all the corresponding original studies, as described in the “InternalRef removed” section. Here, our study is based on the publicly available, large-scale datasets, and not the individual-level data. Hence, ethical approval was not sought.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.