Chen, Zhixiang
Hao, Chengjun
Cui, Bingjun
Wu, Lang
Wang, Chuangong
Zhang, Zhenqing
Han, Shaoyu
Article History
Received: 25 February 2026
Accepted: 20 April 2026
First Online: 2 May 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Huai’an Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University (Approval No.: KY-P-2023-002-01). Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants.
Consent to publication: Written informed consent for publication was obtained from all individual participants prior to their enrollment in the study.
Trial registration: This study was not registered in a clinical trials registry. This is because registration was not a required component of ethical approval or study conduct for investigator-initiated trials at our institution when the trial began.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.