Li, Dian-Jeng
Tsai, Shih-Jen
Chen, Tzeng-Ji
Liang, Chih-Sung https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1138-5586
Chen, Mu-Hong https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6516-1073
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (110-2314-B-075-024-MY3)
Article History
Received: 30 December 2023
Accepted: 14 June 2024
First Online: 22 June 2024
Declarations
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: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The study protocol was reviewed and accepted by the Institutional Review Board of Taipei Veterans General Hospital (approval number: TPEVGH-IRB-2018-07-016AC).
: The requirement for patient consent was waived because the data used in this study were anonymized and derived wholly from a sizeable national database.
: The authors declare no competing interests.