Hong, Jiaqi
Huang, Dan
Qin, Zhouyi
Qiu, Yuqing
Tang, Xiaoqian
Luo, Junkai
Xu, Chengquan
Wang, Wenjie
Zhang, Weiwei
Yang, Xin
Hu, Rujing
Lyu, Shiying
Zhang, Nan
Peng, Xiaoming
Gu, Dianshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
"Pioneer" and "Leading Goose" R&D Program of Zhejiang (2024C03180)
Article History
Received: 28 April 2026
Accepted: 24 August 2026
First Online: 29 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study utilized data from three large population-based surveys: the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and the UK Biobank. KNHANES was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). NHANES was approved by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Ethics Review Board. The UK Biobank was approved by the North West Multicentre Research Ethics Committee, the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care in England and Wales, and the Community Health Index Advisory Group in Scotland (application No. 69972). All relevant studies were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and all participants provided written informed consent.
Consent for publication: Not Applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.