Chen, Han
Gong, Shu-Rong
Yu, Rong-Guo
Article History
Received: 22 September 2020
Accepted: 30 December 2020
First Online: 12 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The institutional review boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA) approved the establishment of the database. Consent was obtained for the original data collection, informed consent was obtained from all subjects or, if subjects are under 18, from a parent and/or legal guardian. Therefore, informed consent was waived for the present study by the Institutional Review Board of Fujian Provincial Hospital. The study was designed and conducted in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations (Declaration of Helsinki), and the study protocol was approved by Institutional Review Board of Fujian Provincial Hospital.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.