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3 4 Hua-Li Huang 1, Guo-Du Tang 1,*, Zhi-Hai Liang 1, Meng-Bin Qin 2, Xian-Mo Wang 3, Ren-Jie 5 Chang 1, He-Ping Qin 1 6 1 Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, 7 Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 8 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 9 530007, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 10 3 Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First People’s Hospital of Jingzhou City, Jingzhou, Jingzhou 11 434000, Hubei, China 12 * Correspondence to: Guo-Du Tang, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of 13 Guangxi Medical University, No.6, Shuangyong Road, Qingxiu District, Nanning 530021, China. 14 E-mail: tguodu02@126.com 15 Tel.: +86-0771-5356501