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Impact of comorbidities on the prognosis of pediatric vasovagal syncope

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Department of Pediatrics, Peking University First Hospital and all the researchers who contributed to this paper. In addition, we appreciate the cooperation of parents and patients and the support of the Ethics Committee of Peking University First Hospital for this study.

Funding

This work was supported by the Peking University Clinical Scientist Program (BMU2019LCKXJ001), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China. Clinical Medicine Plus X - Young Scholars Project (PKU2022LCXQ028), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China. Multi-center Study Project, Peking University First Hospital, China.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Peking University First Hospital, No.1 Xi’an-men Street, West District, Beijing, 100034, China

    Ya-Ru Wang, Jun-Bao Du, Yan Sun, Wen-Rui Xu, Yu-Li Wang, Ying Liao & Hong-Fang Jin

  2. Department of Medical Statistics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

    Xue-Ying Li

  3. Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

    Jun-Bao Du

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YW: writing-original draft, formal analysis, and data curation; XL: formal analysis, investigation, and methodology; YS, WX and YW: data curation, investigation and project administration; HJ and JD: supervision, project administration, writing-review & editing, and conceptualization; YL: writing-review & editing, validation, and methodology.

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This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Peking University First Hospital (2021-095). 

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No financial or non-financial benefits have been received or will be received from any party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article. Junbao Du is a member of the Editorial Board for World Journal of Pediatrics. The paper was handled by the other Editor and has undergone rigorous peer review process. Junbao Du was not involved in the journal's review of, or decisions related to, this manuscript.

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Wang, YR., Li, XY., Du, JB. et al. Impact of comorbidities on the prognosis of pediatric vasovagal syncope. World J Pediatr 18, 624–628 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12519-022-00566-w

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