Wu, Jun
Tong, Xianzeng
Liu, Qingyuan
Cao, Yong
Zhao, Yuanli
Wang, Shuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81471210)
Key Project of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (D161100003816004)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2018
Accepted: 30 January 2019
First Online: 7 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study formal consent is not required.
: Written informed consents were obtained from all participants or their legally authorized representatives and privacy of patients was effectively protected.
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