Huangfu, Bin
Liu, Xuanchen
Wang, Xiao
Niu, Xiaochen
Wang, Chunhong
Cheng, Rui
Ji, Hongming
Funding for this research was provided by:
2024 Graduate Education Innovation Program of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education (2024SJ177)
2024 Graduate Education Innovation Program of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education (2024SJ178)
2021 Basic Research Plan of Shanxi Province (20210302124380)
2021 Basic Research Plan of Shanxi Province (202103021224386)
Article History
Received: 21 November 2024
Accepted: 6 May 2025
First Online: 16 May 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study used anonymized, aggregated data from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 database, managed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. As the data contains no personally identifiable information, the study qualifies for exemption from full ethical review based on guidelines from the Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital Ethics Committee and the University of Washington’s IRB, which oversees the GBD project.