Li, Xinrong
Wang, Hua
Li, Yizhen
Zhou, Jing
Yang, Nianhui
Wei, Xiaolei
Cai, Xiangran
Xiao, Zeyu
Du, Juan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3573
Zeng, Hui https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4498-8888
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82270167)
Article History
Received: 1 July 2025
Accepted: 24 October 2025
First Online: 22 December 2025
Declarations
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: This multicenter retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Guangzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine (IRB-GHITWM), which served as the central ethics committee for all other involved hospitals (IRB#: GZTCWM2025153). The requirement for written informed consent was waived by IRB-GHITWM. The International Conference on Harmonization’s Good Clinical Practice standards and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later revisions served as the foundation for the study’s methodology.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.