Sun, Ruirui
Hong, Xiaojuan
Guo, Jing
Yin, Shuai
Feng, Peiming
Lan, Lei
Lei, Du
Liu, Xiaoyan
Suo, Xueling
Yin, Tao
Zhang, Tingting
Huang, Liuyang
Gao, Feifei
Gong, Qiyong
Liang, Fanrong
Zeng, Fang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO.81473602)
National Natural Science Foundation of Outstanding Youth Fund in China (NO.81622052)
Sichuan Youth Science & Technology Foundation (NO.15QNJJ0008)
Special Fund for the Authors Who win the 100 Top Doctoral Dissertations Award of China (NO.2014084)
Education Ministry’s New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan in China (NCET-13-0699)
Ten Thousand Talent Program (W02020595)
Article History
Received: 7 January 2018
Accepted: 13 June 2018
First Online: 13 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study protocol has been approved by the Institutional Review Boards and Ethics Committees of the 1st Teaching Hospital of Chengdu University of TCM with the ethical approval identifier 2015KL-002. This trial is registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, ChiCTR-IOR-15006523. This trial follows the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (Version Edinburgh 2000). Only patients who signed the informed consent form will be included. In addition, all researchers were trained and signed a pledge to protect the confidentiality of study participants.
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