Wei, Yuan
Ni, Wenqing
Zhang, Yan
Zhang, Hongmin
Zheng, Yijin
Zhong, Jiale
Li, Hui
Zhou, Chengxiong
Yuan, Xueli
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science and Technology Major Project for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular, Respiratory and Metabolic Diseases (grant no. 2024ZD0524800,2024ZD0524801)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 82273631)
the Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China (grant no. JCYJ20220531094410024)
the Shenzhen Medical Key Discipline Construction Fund, Guangdong Province, China (grant no. SZXK065)
Article History
Received: 2 June 2026
Accepted: 26 August 2026
First Online: 2 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Our study was approved by the Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control Human Ethics Committee (No. SZCCC-2021-061-01-PJ). The study complied with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. The Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control Human Ethics Committee approved to waive the informed consent from study participants for the following reasons: (1) All participants were anonymized by encrypted IDs; (2) Privacy of individuals was further protected by presenting group results rather than disclosing personal information.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.