Lu, Zhongkui
Kong, Delong
He, Fang
Lv, Hang
Guo, Yidi
Xia, Xinyi
Zhang, Guoying https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7841-6450
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jiangsu Commission of Health (x202335)
the Development Project of Medical Science and Technology in Nanjing City (ZKX22057)
Article History
Received: 13 January 2026
Accepted: 3 September 2026
First Online: 11 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The human studies were approved by the Ethics Committee of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine.The studies were conducted in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements. Written informed consent was not required for participation in this study as it involved secondary analysis of existing, anonymized data from public databases.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.