Wang, Kun
Shan, Shengshuai
Zheng, Huabo
Zhao, Xiaofang
Chen, Changzhong
Liu, Chengyun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1610-5929
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81370468, 81671386)
Article History
Received: 17 June 2018
Accepted: 10 August 2018
First Online: 21 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The collection of medical examination data in Wuhan Union Hospital from February 1, 2014 to May 31, 2017 for this study was approved by the ethics committee of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and complied with the Declaration of Helsinki of 2008. We verbally informed the participants that the data will be used anonymously for medical study. No informed consent was required, because the study is observational and the data are anonymized.
: Written informed consent for publication was obtained from all participants.
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