Statistical analysis
All the data analyses were conducted by IBM SPSS statistics (Version
25.0, IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) and GraphPad Prism 8 (GraphPad Software,
Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA) software. The data were first performed with
the normality distribution. Student’s t-test was used for variables in a
normal distribution, otherwise, the Mann-Whitney test was used.
Linear regression and Pearson’s
correlation were applied to explore the correlation analysis. Ap -value < 0.05 was defined as statistically
significant.