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Authors
You, Jinshun
Wu, Jiaqi
Zheng, Lingfang
Pei, Jingyi
Xia, Shujie
Qiao, Shijie
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82204977)
Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (No. XQC2023002)
Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, Ministry of Science and Technology (No.SKLKY2025B0015)
Capacity Building and Continuing Education Center of the National Health Commission (No.GWJJMB202510024190)
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Article History
Received: 5 December 2025
Accepted: 4 March 2026
First Online: 7 March 2026
Declarations
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: The ethical protocol for NHANES was approved by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Ethics Review Board ( ). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to data collection. All personal identifiers in the NHANES dataset have been removed, and the data were anonymized before being made publicly available. Since this study is based on a secondary analysis of publicly available anonymized NHANES data, no additional ethical approval was required.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
