Protective effect of recombinant human brain natriuretic peptide against contrast-induced nephropathy in elderly acute myocardial infarction patients: A randomized controlled trial
Yi-Jing Zhang, Lin Yin, Jun Li, Department of Imaging, 904th Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force of PLA, Wuxi 214044, Jiangsu Province, China
Author contributions: Zhang YJ and Li J contributed equally to this work; Zhang YJ, Yin L, and Li J gave the conception and designed the research study; Zhang YJ performed the research; Zhang YJ, Yin L, and Li J analyzed the data; Zhang YJ, Yin L, and Li J wrote the manuscript; all authors gave their final approval and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
Institutional review board statement: The study protocol was approved by the Anhui Medical University Affiliated Wuxi Clinical College Clinical Research Ethics Committee (Approval No. 2016-YXLL-051).
Clinical trial registration statement: This study was registered at Hospital Clinical Trial Registry (No. WXCTR-IM-171162).
Informed consent statement: Written informed consent was obtained from the patients whose competence was established by their accurate orientation for time, place, and person, as well as an understanding of the recruiter’s description of the trial or from their next of kin or legal representative.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that there are no conflicting interests to disclose.
Data sharing statement: The corresponding author may provide the datasets used in the study upon request.
CONSORT 2010 statement: The authors have read the CONSORT 2010 statement, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CONSORT 2010 statement.
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:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Jun Li, BSc, Chief Nurse, Department of Imaging, 904
th Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force of PLA, No. 101 Xing Yuan North Road, Wuxi 214044, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Received: July 17, 2022
Peer-review started: July 17, 2022
First decision: September 9, 2022
Revised: September 21, 2022
Accepted: October 31, 2022
Article in press: October 31, 2022
Published online: November 26, 2022
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