Neutrophil levels upon admission for the assessment of acute pulmonary embolism with intermediate- and high-risk: an indicator of thrombosis and inflammation.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study protocol was established according to the ethical guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration and was approved by the College of Medicine Research Ethics Committee, Fuwai Hospital. Written informed consent was obtained from individual participants. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) of China (2017-I2M-3–003 and 2020-I2M-1–002), the Natural Science Foundation of China (82202594), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, National key research and development project (2016YFC1300403) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82102036)."