Li, Yang
Chen, Xiaohong
Wang, Yimei
Hu, Jiachang
Shen, Ziyan
Ding, Xiaoqiang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Major Projects of Scientific Research, Innovation Plan of Shanghai Education Commission (no. 2017-01-07-00-07-E00009)
Shanghai Medical Center of Kidney (no. 2017ZZ01015)
Zhongshan Hospital Science Foundation for Youths (no.2019ZSQN19)
Article History
Received: 23 September 2019
Accepted: 26 March 2020
First Online: 5 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the institutional review board of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (B2018–175). The informed consent had been waived due to the retrospective cohort design of this study. Patients’ identification information was replaced with codes before data extraction for privacy concerns.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.