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Effects of different pepsinogen cut offs in the screening of apparently healthy people

  • Shui Fu ORCID logo , Qi-Lei Hu , Liang Zhang and Zuo-Jie Li EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Zuo-Jie Li, MB, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The People’s Hospital of Cangnan Zhejiang, No. 2288 Yucang Road, Cangnan County, Zhejiang, 325800, P.R. China, Phone: +86 577 64767112, E-mail:

Funding source: Hangzhou Health Science and Technology Plan Project

Award Identifier / Grant number: No.B20220545

Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the hard and dedicated work of all the staff that implemented the intervention and evaluation components of the study.

  1. Research funding: Hangzhou Health Science and Technology Plan Project (No.B20220545).

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: This study was conducted with approval from the Ethics Committee of Linping Campus, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. This study was conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki.Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.

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Received: 2021-12-16
Revised: 2022-03-05
Accepted: 2022-03-30
Published Online: 2022-04-15
Published in Print: 2022-06-27

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