Zeng, Xinyu
Zhang, Peng
Zhu, Guangsheng
Li, Chengguo
Zhang, Rui
Yu, Minhao
Lin, Guole
Di, Maojun
Jiang, Congqing
Li, Yong
Sun, Yueming
Xia, Lijian
Chi, Pan
Tao, Kaixiong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81702386)
the Key project of Hubei health commission (WJ2019Q030)
Article History
Received: 28 June 2023
Accepted: 13 August 2023
First Online: 22 September 2023
Declarations
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: This study conforms to the Declaration of Helsinki. Our work was approved by the Ethics Committee of all 17 participating centers. At the last follow-up, we informed the alive patients about the study in detail and obtained the informed consent signed by them. For patients who were not alive at the time of the study, we contacted their immediate family members, explained the study in detail, and obtained the informed consent forms signed by them.
: The authors declare no competing interests.