Xu, Xuan
Ni, Zhu
Wang, Yan-Bin
Fan, Sha-Sha
Du, Yanan
Wang, Xu
Meng, Xiang-Yu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province of China (2508085QC099)
Natural Science Research Project for Youth of Higher Education Institutions of Anhui Province (2025AHGXZK40182)
Article History
Received: 19 January 2026
Accepted: 12 May 2026
First Online: 21 May 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This research utilized publicly available datasets from previously published studies and consortia. All original studies included in this analysis had obtained approval from their respective ethical review boards, ensuring compliance with ethical research standards. Furthermore, all participants in the original studies provided informed consent. Since this study did not involve the use of individual-level data and relied solely on aggregated, de-identified datasets, no additional ethical review board approval was required for this research.The animal experiments were ethically approved by the Institutional Review Board of Hubei Minzu University.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Clinical trial number: Not applicable.