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aPancreas & Biliary Center, Department of General Surgery, Clinical Laboratory of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China bDepartment of Cardiology, The Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China cInstitute (College) of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China These authors have contributed equally to this work: Jinming Liu, Guolin Zhang Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding author. Address: Pancreas & Biliary Center, Department of General Surgery, Clinical Laboratory of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian China. E-mail address: [email protected] (B. Zhang) *Corresponding author. Address: Pancreas & Biliary Center, Department of General Surgery, Clinical Laboratory of Integrative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Shang). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/