Nian, Yuan-yuan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0989-9417
Meng, Xian-mei
Wu, Jing
Jing, Fu-chu
Wang, Xue-qin
Dang, Tong
Zhang, Jun
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2019LH08042, 2018MS08050)
the Natural Science Foundation of Baotou Medical College, China (BYJJ-YF-2018024)
Article History
Received: 16 August 2019
Accepted: 15 December 2019
First Online: 13 July 2020
Compliance with ethics guidelines
: Yuan-yuan NIAN, Xian-mei MENG, Jing WU, Fu-chu JING, Xue-qin WANG, Tong DANG, and Jun ZHANG declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, China). All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.