Ailan Chen1,3, Qingquan Lv2, Zhifang Cai3, Yingjie Song3, Jianheng Zhang3,4, Jiaxing Xie3,4,*
1Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
2Medical Department, Hankou Hospital of Wuhan City, Wuhan, China.
3Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hankou Hospital of Wuhan City, Wuhan, China.
4Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
*Corresponding author: Jiaxing Xie
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