Li, Hui
Yu, Hongning https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6442-7201
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Social Science Fund of China (21ARK003)
Article History
Received: 12 April 2024
Accepted: 7 September 2025
First Online: 23 December 2025
Declarations
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: Our study was based upon a public dataset which was widely used in previous literature. Ethical approval for all the CHARLS waves was granted from the Institutional Review Board at Peking University. The IRB approval number for the main household survey, including anthropometrics, is IRB00001052-11015; the IRB approval number for biomarker collection, was IRB00001052-11014.
: During the fieldwork, each respondent who agreed to participate in the survey was asked to sign two copies of the informed consent, and one copy was kept in the CHARLS office, which was also scanned and saved in PDF format.
: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.