Rao, Zhihong
Yang, Wenming
Yang, Yulong
Yang, Yue
Han, Yongsheng
Li, Xiang
Lu, Siyang
Li, Yuchen
Xi, Hu
Diao, Ke
Fang, Shuzhen
He, Wei
Zhu, Sihuan
Funding for this research was provided by:
the following grants: the Regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund of NSFC (U22A20366)
the Anhui Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Research Special Project (202303a07020004)
the Anhui Province Clinical Medical Research Transformation Special Project (2022042951070-2006)
Article History
Received: 18 June 2025
Accepted: 9 August 2025
First Online: 24 September 2025
Declarations
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: Ethical clearance for this retrospective investigation was formally granted by the Institutional Review Board of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine (Protocol ID: 2024AH-13). The ethics committee waived the requirements of informed consent and clinical trial registration.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.