Dai, Yuhan
Song, Jukun
Bai, Guohui
Liu, Jianguo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Zunyi Oral Disease Immune Prevention and Medical Biomaterials Research and Development Innovation Talent Team, Zunyi Science Talent ([2022] No.1)
Zunyi Oral Disease Immune Prevention and Medical Biomaterials Research and Development Innovation Talent Team, Zunyi Science Talent ([2022] No.1)
Zunyi Oral Disease Immune Prevention and Medical Biomaterials Research and Development Innovation Talent Team, Zunyi Science Talent ([2022] No.1)
Article History
Received: 26 January 2025
Accepted: 20 October 2025
First Online: 20 December 2025
Declarations
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: This study utilized publicly available data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The NHANES protocol was approved by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Research Ethics Review Board, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants before data collection. This study was conducted following the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and as this study involved secondary analysis of de-identified publicly available data, additional ethical approval was not required.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.