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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (2019-SR-123) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Individual consent was waived for this retrospective study. 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 National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 82203296), the Key Project of Jiangsu Commission of Health (grant number ZD2022055), and the Key Project of Taizhou School of Clinical Medicine of Nanjing Medical University (grant number TZKY20220309)."