Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (82273595)
Shanxi Province Higher Education “Billion Project” Science and Technology Guidance Project (BYBLD005)
the Horizontal Project of Shanxi Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (2023049)
Article History
Received: 10 April 2026
Accepted: 7 July 2026
First Online: 15 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was based entirely on publicly available summary-level data from previously published studies and databases. No individual-level identifiable information was used. Therefore, no additional ethical approval or informed consent was required for the present study.
Consent for publication: All authors have approved the manuscript for submission and agreed to publication and have warranted that the manuscript is original research and is not under consideration for publication in another journal.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.