Gu, Qingtao
Qi, Shouliang http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0977-1939
Yue, Yong
Shen, Jing
Zhang, Baihua
Sun, Wei
Qian, Wei
Islam, Mohammad Saidul
Saha, Suvash C.
Wu, Jianlin
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81671773)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (61672146)
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (N172008008, N180719020)
Article History
Received: 20 February 2019
Accepted: 15 October 2019
First Online: 25 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Dalian University (Dalian, China) and was in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All subjects gave written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All subjects gave written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.