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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University. (2017–147-01) Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82072822, 81802535, 81772710, 81972388), China postdoctoral fund (223427), Nanjing Medical Science and Technique Development Foundation (YKK 18064). This work was also supported by the Project of Invigorating Health Care through Science, Technology and Education Jiangsu Provincial Key Medical Discipline (ZDXKB2016014)."