Wang, Jifen
Zhang, Xinyong
Duan, Kui
Wang, Xianni
Chen, Changling
Ye, Lan
Zhang, Chunlin
Feng, Zhanhui
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Qianxinan Medical Research Joint Project (Zhoukehe Medical 2024-57)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82360266)
Article History
Received: 23 October 2025
Accepted: 19 February 2026
First Online: 26 February 2026
Declarations
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: Data for this study were obtained from the NHANES database, which ensures ethical collection and anonymization to protect individual privacy. As our research uses only pre-existing, publicly available data without any direct interaction with human subjects or new data collection, no additional ethical approval was necessary. Thus, no ethical statement is provided.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.