Chen, Rui
Zha, Hailing
Zhu, Qiannan
Liu, Xinpei
Huang, Lifeng
Li, Cuiying
Wang, Jue
Zha, Xiaoming https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2604-811X
Article History
Received: 16 May 2026
Accepted: 10 June 2026
First Online: 27 June 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (Approval No. 2020-SR-311) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. This study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04482803). All the procedures were followed in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and those of the Helsinki Declaration, and informed consent was obtained from all the participants.