He, Xu
Shi, Fukun
Cui, Yingzhu
Liu, Jingjing
Zhang, Jiacheng
Xu, Qian
Si, Jiameng
Yan, Yihao
Shu, Junjie
Feng, Zhichao
Zhang, Lan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7891-3964
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Science Research Foundation (YWJKJJHKYJJ-BXS5-22039)
Medical Science and Technology Tackling Programme of Henan Province (LHGJ20230679)
Chinese Medicine Scientific Research of Henan Province (2024ZY3008)
Article History
Received: 9 January 2025
Revised: 5 May 2025
Accepted: 26 May 2025
First Online: 2 July 2025
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Lan Zhang.
: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
: One of the authors (Zhichao Feng) is an expert in statistics who provided statistical advice.
: The institutional review boards (IRB) of all participating hospitals were informed and agreed the study and the requirement to obtain written informed consent was waived (IRB of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine approval No. 2023HL-034-01, IRB of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University approval No. 2023-KY-0196, and IRB of the First Hospital of Jilin University approval No. 2020-324).
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013).
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