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"Financial Disclosure Statement The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article. Conflict of interests None declared."

"Funding This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 82172222), the Outstanding Professional and Technical Leader Program of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission (18XD1423700), the Shanghai Health Industry Clinical Research Special Project (20204Y0443), the Cross Research Project of Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (JYJC202009) and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission-Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support (Grant number: 20152227)."

"Clinical trial registration: This trial was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital (registration number: SH9H-2022-T299–1), Ningbo Sixth Hospital (registration number: YLYLS2022144) and Hangzhou Plastic Surgery Hospital (registration number: HZLL20210011)."