Wang, Senlin
Zhang, Ruimin
Guo, Peisen
Yang, Huawu
Liu, Yanjun https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5667-1047
Zhu, Hongmei
Article History
Received: 7 September 2024
Accepted: 13 January 2025
First Online: 29 January 2025
Declarations
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: This study involves a secondary analysis of publicly available data from NHANES. All human studies have been approved by NCHS Ethics Review Board (ERB) and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The ethical protocol numbers approved by the ERB for this study are Protocol #98-12, Protocol #2005-06, Protocol #2011-17, and Protocol #2018-01. The present study, being a secondary analysis of anonymized data, did not require additional ethical approval from our institution.
: The authors declare no competing interests.