Pan, Zhenliang
Li, Yi
Lou, Jie
Shan, Shuai
Guo, Yusheng
Jiang, Shanshan
He, Qingliu
Zhou, Guofeng
Yang, Lian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Startup Fund for scientific research of Fujian Medical University (2024QH1149)
the National Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (No.2025J01829)
the Joint Funds for the Innovation of Science and Technology of Fujian Province (No. 2025Y9429)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82472058)
Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases-National Science and Technology Major Project (2024ZD0522802)
Article History
Received: 2 March 2026
Accepted: 18 May 2026
First Online: 25 May 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The ethical approvals for this study were provided by the Institutional Review Board of Wuhan Union Hospital, the Institutional Review Board of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, and the Institutional Review Board of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Hospital. The ethics committees of all three institutions independently reviewed the study protocol and granted waivers for informed consent due to its retrospective nature.
: This retrospective study utilized de-identified patient data, and the requirement for informed consent was waived by three institutional review boards.