Liu, Yu
Yang, Man
Ding, Yaping
Wang, Huanqiang
Zhang, Hailin
Wang, Dandan
Zhuang, Tianchi
Ji, Minghui
Cui, Yan
Wang, Hong
Article History
Received: 25 January 2022
Accepted: 12 August 2022
First Online: 22 August 2022
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Fourth People’s hospital of Lianyungang (2021LSYYXLL-P15) and it has been performed in accordance with WMA declaration of Helsinki -ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. As the study is a retrospective study not involving human embryos, gametes, stem cells, animals, palaeontological and geological material or plants, Lianyungang Fourth People’s Hospital Medical Ethics Committee waived the need for informed consent. The reasons are following. First, patients’ names were not listed in this study and the hospitalization numbers were used as the identity when collecting data, which were omitted in the subsequent analyses. Patients’ privacy will not be exposed. Next, no biological specimens were collected from patients in this study. Test results of patients at specific time points were recorded retrospectively.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.