Cheng, Bei-Jing
Xie, Ming
Chen, Han
Jiang, Nan
Zhu, Xin-Yi
Bambrick, Hilary
Tong, Michael
Liu, Ran
Funding for this research was provided by:
Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX230333)
Medical Research Project of North China Petroleum Bureau General Hospital (zyy-yj2024-001)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82574047)
Article History
Received: 7 October 2025
Accepted: 8 December 2025
First Online: 14 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study has obtained clinical research ethics approval from Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University (Approval No.: 2022ZDSYLL218-P01). The requirement for individual informed consent was waived because the study used anonymized health examination data and involved no direct contact with participants. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.