Wang, Shao-Jing
Sun, Lou
Shih, Yu-Hsiang
Lu, Ting-Fang
Chen, Yen-Fu
Hsu, Shih-Tien
Liu, Chin-Ku
Hwang, Sheau-Feng
Chen, Jem-Kun
Chen, Hsin-Hua
Lu, Chien-Hsing
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH-1128902E, TCVGH-1138902E, and TCVGH-1113001D, TCVGH-1128902E, TCVGH-1138902E, and TCVGH-1113001D)
Article History
Received: 8 May 2024
Accepted: 6 March 2025
First Online: 14 March 2025
Declarations
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: This work was conducted in compliance with the principles of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Taichung Veterans General Hospital (CE24073C). Consent to participate is waived in this study as TriNetX has recieved a waiver of informed consent from the Western Institutional Review Board. All data and statistical summaries were displayed in aggregated counts, and no identifiable information can be accessed.
: All data were anonymized to protect individuals' confidentiality, and no personally identifiable information is accessible or shareable. Only aggregate data derived from the analyses will be published. As a result, informed consent from individual participants was waived for this study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.