Yao, Guoyan
Huang, Yan
Shang, Xiaojing
Guo, Lei
Feng, Jieping
Lai, Zhongqiu
Huang, Weikang
Lu, Jianye
Chen, Lijun
zheng, Minan
Article History
Received: 2 June 2025
Accepted: 15 September 2025
First Online: 14 October 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Approval No. ZE2021-111). All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with relevant national/international guidelines and regulations. As thi-s study was retrospective in nature, the requirement for informed consent was waived.
: Not applicable. This study is a retrospective analysis of anonymous data. All patient data were anonymized and de-identified prior to analysis, and no individual person’s data, images, or identifying details are included in the manuscript. Therefore, consent for publication from individual participants is not required.
: The authors declare no competing interests.