Zhou, Jintuo
Zhu, Yanting
Liu, Ying
Zhan, Hairong
Niu, Peiguang
Chen, Huajiao
Zhang, Jinhua https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5629-0348
Article History
Received: 12 July 2024
Accepted: 10 March 2025
First Online: 28 March 2025
Declarations
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: This study is a meta-analysis based solely on previously published data, no direct involvement of human participants or use of human samples occurred. Therefore, the approval of an ethical committee is not required. All the included trials will comply with the current ethical standards and the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All authors approved the version of the manuscript to be published.
: Informed consent for patient information to be published in this article was not obtained because the present study only reported and analyzed the published articles from publicly available sources.
: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: Ethical approval has not been sought for this work. The present survey did not investigate and analyze human samples for pathophysiology, genetics, and other medical purposes. The meta-analysis adhered to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Moreover, the review protocol was previously registered in the PROSPERO database (ID: CRD42023445435).