Yang, Li
Tao, Yuan
Weixin, Zhang
Meiling, Bao
Jing, Hang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jiangsu Province Key Research & Development Plan (BE2018703)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M701493)
Article History
Received: 22 April 2021
Accepted: 14 January 2022
First Online: 24 January 2022
Declarations
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: This research is retrospective and involves the collection of existing data and records. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee(s) and with the Helsinki Declaration. Informed consent was waived since this was a retrospective study.The ethical committee of the first affiliated hospital of Nanjing Medical University approved all procedures of the study and provided a waiver for the written informed consent.
: Informed consent for publication is obtained from all participants.
: The authors declared that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be constructed as a potential conflict of interest.