Deng, Hai
Lin, Mei-Ping
He, Xin-Yan
Huang, Min-Jing
Lu, Si-Long
Fu, Jin-Bo
Li, Jun-Chi
Lip, Gregory Y. H.
Cheng, Yun-Jiu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2025A1515012363)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2024A1515013067)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82270333)
Guangzhou Science and Technology Program (2024B03J1344)
High-level Talents Introduction Plan of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (KY012023007)
Clinical Research Special Fund of Guangdong Medical Association (2024HY-A6002)
National Science and Technology Innovation Major Project-Research Project on Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Metabolic Diseases (2023ZD0504202; 2023ZD0504204)
Article History
Received: 8 January 2026
Accepted: 21 July 2026
First Online: 4 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Each of the studies included in this investigation has already received ethical approval from an individual institutional review board, and all participants provided written informed consent. This research has been conducted using publicly available datasets. De-identified data were used, and no additional ethical approval was required.
Consent for publication: Not applicable. This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.