期刊论文

Xu, XH

英文

BMJ OPEN

2044-6055

2023

13

2

e068532

10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068532

Contributors WX is the first author and registered the protocol in the PROSPERO database. XX obtained funding, critically revised the protocol and contributed to the drafting of the final manuscript. WX and FC collected and analysed the data. YC, XL and MY revised and reviewed this article. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. WX and XX are the guarantors of the study. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 82103026) and Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 2021JJ40327).

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