Gong, Yongjian
Zhou, Cheng
Wan, Yu
Yin, Haibin
Article History
Received: 31 May 2024
Accepted: 23 September 2024
First Online: 10 October 2024
Declarations
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: The requirement of ethical approval for this was waived by the Institutional Review Board of The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, because the data was accessed from NHANES (a publicly available database). The need for written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University due to retrospective nature of the study. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.