Chen, Xinyi
Ji, Feiyue
Ao, Wenling
Xi, Xinya
Hu, Zhihui
Zeng, Yixin
Zhang, Bin
Xiong, Sicheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (Project No. 24YJC880151)
Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Project No. 2025JJ50413)
Hunan Provincial Education Science "14th Five-Year Plan" Youth Project (Project No. XJK25QXL001)
Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 72504086)
Article History
Received: 2 August 2025
Accepted: 12 June 2026
First Online: 20 June 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hunan University of Chinese Medicine in March 2024 (Ethics Approval No. HN-LL-GZR-2024-047).
: Prior to participation, all participants were informed about the study’s purpose, the voluntary nature of participation, and the procedures for data storage and security. Informed consent to participate in the study and consent for publication of their data were obtained from all participants between April and May 2024.