Wang, Lidan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8668-1358
Tian, Maoyi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5660-8571
Yang, Bolu
Peoples, Nicholas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5454-9627
Jan, Stephen
Dunzhu, Danzeng
Dong, Wenbin
Yan, Lijing L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-0462
Lung, Thomas
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71774075)
Chinese Center for Health Education and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation
Article History
Received: 10 October 2024
Revised: 13 November 2025
Accepted: 24 November 2025
First Online: 9 December 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study protocol received ethical approval from the institutional review boards at Peking University Health Science Center, China, Public Health Foundation of India, and Duke University, USA. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.