Ye, Xianlin
Li, Tong
Shao, Wen
Zeng, Jinfeng
Hong, Wenxu
Lu, Liang
Zhu, Weigang
Li, Chengyao
Li, Tingting http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5727-2179
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health and Family Planning Commission of Shenzhen Municipality Foundation of China (SZGW2017018)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81871655)
Article History
Received: 18 January 2019
Accepted: 23 June 2019
First Online: 3 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Shenzhen Blood Centre, China (Approval number: 2017002). All participants provided written informed consent. All methods were carried out in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. To guarantee donor confidentiality, donors were anonymized via de-identification (through the use of codes). The process of delinking donor identities and donation units was undertaken exclusively by a data specialist from Shenzhen Blood Centre.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.