Yang, Sijia
Liang, Zhuoshuai
Qiu, Yue
Li, Xiaoyang
Tian, Yuyang
Liu, Yawen
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81973120)
National Key R&D Program of China (#2018YFC1311600)
Project for Improving Capability of Health Science and Technology in Jilin Province (2021JC038)
Article History
Received: 10 May 2024
Accepted: 20 January 2025
First Online: 30 January 2025
Declarations
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: All participants gave written informed consent before enrollment in the study, which was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and the NHANES data collection was approved by the Research Ethics Review Board of the National Center for Health Statistics []. The NHANES has strict protocols and procedures in place to ensure confidentiality and protect against identification. As our study was a secondary data analysis, which lacked personal identifiers, and the data in NHANES are freely accessible to the public on the web [], it did not require review by an institutional review board []. The National Center for Health Statistics Research Ethics Review Boa1/13/2025rd gave its approval to the NHANES survey. Written consents were acquired by each participant.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.