Zhang, Peng
Zhu, Wanbo
Wang, Yongkang
Kourkoumelis, Nikolaos
Zhu, Chen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7774-2219
Zhang, Xianzuo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6432-7745
Zhang, Weiwei https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-6815
Article History
Received: 13 March 2024
Revised: 25 November 2024
Accepted: 6 December 2024
First Online: 29 December 2024
Consent for publication
: The study had been obtained all authors consent for publication.
: The authors declare that the research was conducted without any commercial or financial relationships construed as a potential conflict of interest.
: All participants provided informed consent before conducting NHANES, and ethics approval was obtained from the institutional board and the Research Ethics Review Board at the National Centre for Health Statistics. NHANES makes its anonymized database available for researchers. Therefore, the authors did not directly obtain consent from the participants. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.