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Yu, Ruizhi
Yan, Yunfei
Lin, Junjie
Li, Hucai
Cai, Youqing
Wang, Lixin
Liu, Xusheng
He, Zhiren
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Article History
Received: 26 August 2025
Accepted: 22 January 2026
First Online: 30 January 2026
Declarations
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: This retrospective study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine (Approval Number: ZE2020-054-01), which granted a full waiver of the requirement for informed consent. The waiver was granted as the research involved no more than minimal risk and the use of protected health information was determined to have no adverse impact on the rights and welfare of the participants. The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: Not applicable. All data in this retrospective study were thoroughly anonymized and de-identified prior to analysis. The requirement for informed consent for publication was waived by the Ethics Committee of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine (Approval Number: ZE2020-054-01).
: The authors declare no competing interests.
