Ge, Wei
Sun, Chenjie
Zhu, Zhijian
Wang, Bing
Lu, Zhigang
Pan, Yesheng
Article History
Received: 21 July 2025
Accepted: 17 December 2025
First Online: 22 December 2025
Declarations
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: The NAGALA study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Murakami Memorial Hospital, and all participants provided written informed consent. As this study involved a secondary analysis of existing data, additional ethical approval was deemed unnecessary. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.