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Received: 14 February 2025

Accepted: 28 April 2025

First Online: 15 May 2025

Declarations

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: The study will follow the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the ethics committees of the Affiliated Suqian Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University and the Affiliated Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine Nanjing Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (No. ChiCTR2400092634) on November 30, 2024. Informed consent will be obtained from all the participants. Informed consent procedures will be stratified by cognitive status: participants with MMSE scores ≥ 25 will provide autonomous consent, whereas those with scores < 25 will require consent from legally authorized representatives per institutional protocols. Any changes to the protocol resulting from data revision will be communicated to the Research Ethics Committee, and approval for the modifications will be obtained before implementing any adjustments to the study. Additionally, significant changes to the study protocol will require reconsent from participants.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of this work.