Xiong, Yingbei
Yao, Yifan
Li, Yuehua
Chen, Shanquan
Li, Yunfei
Lin, Kunhe
Xiang, Li
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (YCJJ20242228)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (72174068)
Article History
Received: 25 September 2024
Accepted: 23 December 2024
First Online: 2 January 2025
Declarations
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: Research involving human data has been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations in the declaration. The study was approved by the institutional review board at each participating site and by the biomedical ethics review committee of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (S170. June 30, 2021). The need for informed consent was waived by the ethics institutional review board of Huazhong University of Science and Technology because of the retrospective nature of the study. All authors confirm that this research caused no harm (physical or mental) to any participants.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that there were no competing interests.