Association between neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and major postoperative complications after carotid endarterectomy: A retrospective cohort study
Yun Yu, Wei-Hua Cui, Chan Cheng, Yu Lu, Qing Zhang, Ru-Quan Han, Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China
Author contributions: Yu Y, Cui WH and Han RQ were major contributors to the design of the current study; Yu Y, Cui WH and Cheng C performed the analyses and interpretation the data and made substantial contributions to the draft manuscript; Lu Y, Zhang Q and Han RQ made great efforts to revise it; all authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding, No. ZYLX201708 and No. DFL20180502; Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Incubating Program, No. PX2017037; Beijing Hospitals Authority Youth Programme, No. QML20190508; and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z191100006619067.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing Tiantan Hospital (KY2017-024-01) and performed conforming to the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
Informed consent statement: Given the retrospective nature of the study, the ethics committee waived the need for written informed consent and no registration was required.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no competing interests.
Data sharing statement: The original data is available on request from the corresponding author at
ruquan.han@ccmu.edu.cn.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Ru-Quan Han, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 119, Southwest 4
th Ring Road, Fengtai District, Beijing 100070, China.
ruquan.han@ccmu.edu.cn
Received: January 28, 2021
Peer-review started: January 28, 2021
First decision: June 15, 2021
Revised: June 27, 2021
Accepted: September 14, 2021
Article in press: September 14, 2021
Published online: December 16, 2021
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