Ming, Jie
Xu, Shaoyong
Liu, Chun
Liu, Xiangyang
Jia, Aihua
Ji, Qiuhe
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2013KTZB03-02-01)
Article History
Received: 18 November 2017
Accepted: 2 January 2018
First Online: 26 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the independent Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University (ID: KY20150611-3) and registered (registration date: 18 October 2017 – retrospectively registered) at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Trials Register (ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT03330184). The findings of this trial will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts will be submitted to relevant national and international conferences.Each subject has provided signed and dated informed consent before conducting any procedure associated with the study. Participation in this study is strictly confidential. Any information that is published will not reveal the identity of the subjects.
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