Deng, Zhiwen
Chen, Yuanyuan
Hong, Haijing
Ma, Xu
Gu, Xingbo
Tian, Ye
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (826MS0163)
the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (826MS0166)
the Startup Foundation for Advanced Talents of Hainan Medical University (XRC202114)
Article History
Received: 2 April 2026
Accepted: 10 July 2026
First Online: 15 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The CHARLS study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Peking University; the IRB approval number for the main household survey was IRB00001052-11015. For ELSA, ethical approval was obtained separately for each wave used in this study: Wave 4, 07/H0716/48; Wave 5, 09/H0505/124; Wave 6, 11/SC/0374; Wave 7, 13/SC/0532; Wave 8, 15/SC/0526; and Wave 9, 17/SC/0588.All participants in both studies provided written informed consent. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the relevant institutional and/or national research committees and with the Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.