Fang, Yicheng
Tavengana, Grace
Wu, Huan
Mei, Wendan
Jiang, Chao
Wang, Chenxu
Ren, Xia
Hu, Jian
Su, Fan
Cheng, Shi
Ma, Xinyu
Wang, Tong
Wu, Yue
Wen, Yufeng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Anhui Provincial Department of Education (2018jxtd153)
Article History
Received: 8 January 2024
Accepted: 23 August 2024
First Online: 28 August 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study's protocol has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Wannan Medical College, with data sourced from the Health Management Center at the First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College in Wuhu, China. Given that participants were hospital visitors for routine medical check-ups, the Medical Ethics Committee deemed verbal informed consent as sufficient. Therefore, necessary verbal informed consent was obtained from all subjects and/or their legal guardian(s). All methods in this study were conducted in accordance with the guidelines and regulations of the Declaration of Helsinki.