Article History
Received: 27 November 2024
Accepted: 4 May 2025
First Online: 5 June 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013). Consent to participate was obtained and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) ethics committee approved NHANES study protocol. Study protocols for NHANES were approved by the NCHS ethnics review board (Protocol #2011–17). All information from the NHANES program is available and free for the public, so the agreement of the medical ethics committee board was not necessary. In this study, all human studies have been reviewed by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in an appropriate version of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.