Li, Shijiani
Tang, Yilan
Fang, Jie
Deng, Demao
Tu, Yiheng
Article History
Received: 12 July 2026
Accepted: 14 August 2026
First Online: 24 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all participants provided written informed consent. The UK Biobank study was approved by the North West Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee, and the present analyses were conducted under UK Biobank application 71901. The external validation study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University (Approval No. 2020–060).
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.