Lu, Bei-Bei
Luo, Qian
Yuan, Xiao-Lin
Chen, Qing-Song
Ran, Jing-Yang
Zhe, Xing-Wei
Liao, Xiao-Hui
Funding for this research was provided by:
grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81873604)
Chongqing medical scientific research project (2022GDRC005)
Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX0984)
CQMU Program for Youth lnnovation in Future Medicine (W0173)
Article History
Received: 23 October 2024
Accepted: 16 May 2025
First Online: 18 June 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The data utilized in this study were obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a publicly accessible dataset. The NHANES study protocol was reviewed and approved by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Ethics Review Board.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to data collection.
: Not applicable. This study is a secondary analysis of publicly available NHANES data and does not involve individual patient data.