Chen, Zhaoxia
Zhou, Dongmei
Wang, Yan
Lan, Haibing
Duan, Xingwu
Li, Bohua
Zhao, Jingxia
Li, Wei
Liu, Zhengrong
Di, Tingting
Guo, Xinwei
Zhang, Jinchao
Li, Bo
Feng, Shuo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9155-4652
Li, Ping
Funding for this research was provided by:
Capital’s Funds for Health Improvement and Research (CFH2018-2-1162)
Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Development Fund Project (QN2018-21)
Article History
Received: 29 April 2019
Accepted: 18 September 2019
First Online: 4 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. It has gained ethical approval at both central and local levels. Central ethical approval has been confirmed from the Ethics Committee of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (approval no. 2018BL-064-02 on 15 November 2018) and we will not begin recruiting at other centers in the trial until local ethical approval has been obtained. The trial has been registered on the platform of Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ExternalRef removed registration no. ChiCTR1800019588).Before randomization, written informed consent will be obtained from all participants. Patients who participated in the study voluntarily were not remunerated and were able to withdraw from the study at any time.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.