Liu, Xianling
Chu, Aihui
Ding, Xiahao
Article History
Received: 24 September 2024
Accepted: 20 May 2025
First Online: 28 May 2025
Declarations
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: Participants in NHANES provided written informed consent, and the study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Review Board of the National Center for Health Statistics and the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Human Use Review Committee (Protocol Number: Protocol #2011–17, Protocol #2018–01) (). The present study is a secondary analysis of publicly available and de-identified data and was therefore exempt from further institutional review.
: All authors have reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript.
: The authors declare no competing interests.