Zheng, Huizhen
Yin, Ziwei
Luo, Xi
Zhou, Yingli
Zhang, Fei
Guo, Zhihua
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81673955)
Provincial Key Research and Development Project of Hunan (2022SK2012)
Provincial Natural Science Foundation Project of Hunan (2021JJ30495)
Postgraduate Innovation Project of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (2022CX153)
Article History
Received: 27 May 2023
Accepted: 3 October 2023
First Online: 16 October 2023
Declarations
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: The data of this study is from the anonymous database disclosed by NHANES, so no further ethical review is required. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Research Ethics Review Board (ERB) reviewed and approved this study and ethics approval was available from the NCHS Research Ethics Review Board for NHANES 2003–2018. The study was carried out following the rule of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, revised in 2013. All enrolled patients provided written informed consent.
: Not appliable.
: We have obtained consents to publish this paper from all the participants of this study.
: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.