Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2022J011369)
Article History
Received: 26 May 2024
Accepted: 3 July 2024
First Online: 15 July 2024
Declarations
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: The formulation of this research protocol conforms to the relevant requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Hospital of Xiamen University (No. XMFHIIT-2023SL030) and has been registered in the ClinicalTrials.gov system (ID: NCT06281561). All participants signed the informed consent form.
: Written informed consent for publication was obtained from all participants. The Trial Team would be willing to provide copies of blank Consent Forms and Participant Information Sheets upon request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.