Liu, Lijia
Sun, Hui
Yi, Lan
Wang, Gang
Zou, Yanqin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (SJCX24_0933)
Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine Department Director Academic Promotion Fund (Y2022ZR02)
Academic Inheritance and Communication Project of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CI2022E021XB, CI2022E021XB)
Article History
Received: 17 September 2024
Accepted: 8 December 2024
First Online: 20 December 2024
Declarations
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: The NHANES study received approval from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Ethics Review Board. In accordance with NHANES protocol, all participants in the NHANES study provided written informed consent. Detailed information about the NHANES protocol and ethical review process is available at . As this study utilized publicly available data from the NHANES database, no additional ethical approval or consents were required. Clinical trial number: not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.