Chen, Haoyu
Yang, Jimeng
Shao, Yongfeng
Gu, Weidong
Ni, Buqing
Gu, Jiaxi
Chen, Minglong
Li, Mingfang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82270329)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2024
Accepted: 1 August 2025
First Online: 9 August 2025
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (Number of IRB approval: 2014-SR-113, Date of IRB approval: Aug 26th, 2014). All enrolled patients provided written informed consent to participate in this study. The patients/participants also gave written informed consent to publish identifying details such as their age, gender, and illness. The study comply with the guidelines for human studies and the research was conducted ethically in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.