Xu, Hui
Li, Xiaodong
Liu, Yong
Sun, Xiaolei
Article History
Received: 7 March 2026
Accepted: 9 June 2026
First Online: 20 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, which waived the requirement for informed consent because this was a retrospective analysis of de-identified routinely collected data and posed no more than minimal risk to participants. All data were anonymized prior to analysis.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.