Wen, Xue-song
Jiang, Dan
Gao, Lei
Zhou, Jian-zhong
Xiao, Jun
Cheng, Xiao-cheng
He, Bin
Chen, Yue
Lei, Peng
Tan, Xiao-wei
Qin, Shu
Zhang, Dong-ying
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81970203)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81570212, 31800976)
Article History
Received: 21 July 2020
Accepted: 26 December 2020
First Online: 12 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All study procedures were approved by the ethics committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (approval NO. 20200701). The ethics committee listed above approved verbal consent because of the urgency of the situation at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that the data used in this study were collected during routine medical procedures, which did not pose any additional risk to the patients. All participants provided fully informed verbal consent before being enrolled in this study. The data used in this study were anonymized prior to use.
: Not Applicable.
: All authors declare no conflict of interest.