Liu, Hongji
Li, Xiang
Zhang, Zongduan
Zeng, Jieping
Dai, Yan
Wang, Chao
Xie, Zhao
Cheng, Lin
Cui, Linru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chinese Medicine Bureau of Sicuan Province (2018LC008)
Article History
Received: 21 December 2019
Accepted: 12 March 2020
First Online: 25 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate {24}
: Central ethical approval has been confirmed from the Sichuan Regional Ethics Review Committee on Chinese Medicine and Medical Ethics Committee of Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of TCM (ref approval no. 2018KL-040) and we will not begin recruiting at other centers in the trial until local ethical approval has been obtained. Written consent will be obtained from all participants by the investigator. The study strictly conforms to the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.