YXW and XHJ: design of experiments, conduct of experiments, data analysis, and writing of the manuscript. HMS and SCL: design and conduct of experiments, data analysis, and guidance on manuscript revision. HY: design and guidance of experiments, editorial review of the manuscript, and financial support. All authors contributed to editorial changes in the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the final version. All authors agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
The Ethics Committee of the Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University approved this study (Approval No. 2023KY-003). Except for the database registration, the study adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki standards. All patients enlisted for this research provided written informed consent. They were afforded strict protection of their rights and privacy, and could withdraw from the study at any moment.
This is a special acknowledgement. We thank Prof. HJ Ding, Prof. KP Xie, Prof. CB Ji, Prof. XW Cui, Dr. LJ Xu, Dr. CQ Wu, Dr. HY Hou, Dr. Y Yang, Dr. ZY Xia, Dr. L Xue, Dr. ZJ Miao, Miss HY Chen, Miss SY Jiang, Mr. YC Wang, Miss TT Y in and others from Nanjing Medical University. We also thanks Prof. RZ Jia, Dr. X Shen, Dr. SW Feng, Dr. H Yin and others from Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University. The moral and financial support from them helped YX Wang and this research. Thanks to ejear for language editing services on the manuscript.
This research received no external funding.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Supplementary material associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at https://doi.org/10.31083/FBL26345.