Zhu, Yong
Zhou, Hao
An, Peng
Mao, Yingfan
Nie, Ziwei
Wang, Jianhua
Wang, Zhongqiu
Cui, Wenjing
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jiangsu TCM Science and Technology Development Program Project (MS2025012)
Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine Scientific Research Project (No. Y24051)
Article History
Received: 30 December 2025
Accepted: 14 July 2026
First Online: 23 July 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine (Approval No. 2023DW-077-01), and informed consent was waived.
Consent for publication: The local institutional review board approved this study, and informed consent from patients was waived due to its retrospective nature.