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Article History

Received: 9 February 2023

Accepted: 19 September 2023

First Online: 4 October 2023

Declarations

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: The ethical approval of this protocol was obtained from the Anhui Medical University Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (Ref:81220189). The changes to the important part of the protocol in the future will be documented and reported to the Anhui Medical University Biomedical Research Ethics Committee.The informed consent will proceed as follows: (1) the investigator will explain the purpose of our study and verbally ask whether the potential patient are willing to participate; (2) the informed consent approved by the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of Anhui Medical University (ECAMU) will be given to the patients (Additional file ); (3) the investigator will read the contents of the informed consent and tell the patients that they have the right to withdraw from the study at any time; (4) the patients who agree to participate in the study will sign their names on the informed consent, and the illiterate patients will sign their fingerprint on the informed consent. In addition, any participant can withdraw from the project at any time without prejudice or discrimination. The participants withdrawn from the project will not be replaced but the withdrawn reasons will be recorded.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.