Zheng, Jun
Jin, Yi-jing
Wang, Cheng-hai
Feng, Chu
Lai, Xin-yuan
Hua, Shu-qing
Tai, Jia-hui
Article History
Received: 12 June 2024
Accepted: 22 January 2025
First Online: 31 January 2025
Declarations
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: This study is based on data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. The GBD study uses deidentified data, and a waiver of informed consent was approved by the University of Washington Institutional Review Board. As our research utilized this publicly available, deidentified dataset, additional ethics approval for our specific analysis was not required. This approach is in line with the ethical guidelines for secondary data analysis.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.