Shou, Yin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1536-9161
Hu, Li
Zhang, Cuihong
Xu, Shifen
Jin, Qi
Huang, Li
Li, Bingrong
Yuan, Long
Xu, Siwei
Zhang, Kaiyong
Jiang, Huiru
Zhang, Bimeng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (17401932200)
Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau (No.zybz-2017026, ZY2018-2020-FWTX-4029, ZY2018-2020-FWTX-4029)
Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 2017-33)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81403470)
National Natural Science Foundations of China (81600611)
Article History
Received: 26 August 2018
Accepted: 30 December 2019
First Online: 28 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Shanghai General Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University ([2017]31), Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2017SHL-KY-06), and Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridians (2017–037-01). After obtaining ethics committee approval, the trial was registered on an authoritative registration platform for clinical trials (Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinical Trial Registry, AMCTR-ICR-18000179). Written informed consent will be obtained from all volunteers, and the study will conform to the ethical principles set forth by the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Consent for publication from the participants to report individual participant data will be obtained from each participant.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.