Sun, Mingyang
Li, Fangfang
Wang, Yangyang
Miao, Mengrong
Lu, Zhongyuan
Chen, Wan-Ming
Wu, Szu-Yuan
Zhang, Jiaqiang
Article History
Received: 4 December 2024
Accepted: 14 January 2025
First Online: 6 February 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted using de-identified data from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), a publicly available database in Taiwan. Since the data are fully anonymized and do not contain identifiable personal information, the study does not involve human participants directly. As such, ethical approval and informed consent were not required. This complies with the relevant guidelines and regulations for the use of anonymized secondary data in research.
: The authors declare no competing interests related to this study.