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Authors
Tian, Cuihong
Yang, Peixuan
Li, Xingang
Zhang, Hongxia
He, Jieyi
Zhu, Jinxiu
Chen, Yequn
Tan, Xuerui
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2025M772244)
Innovation Team Project of Guangdong Universities, China (2024KCXTD019)
Funding for Guangdong Medical Leading Talent, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, China (2019-2022)
Grant for Key Disciplinary Project of Clinical Medicine under the High-level University Development Program, Guangdong, China (2024-2025)
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Article History
Received: 23 December 2025
Accepted: 25 February 2026
First Online: 28 February 2026
Declarations
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: The original HECS was approved by the Clinical Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of SUMC (No. B-2021-127), and informed consent was obtained from all recruited participants. Given the data in present study were de-identified with low risk to participants, the Human Research Ethics of Edith Cowan University waived the informed consent for the secondary analysis. The study adhered to the principles of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors declared that they have no competing interests.
