Kuo, Tzu-chia
Lu, Yang-bor
Yang, Chieh-lun
Wang, Bin
Chen, Lin-xin
Su, Ching-ping
Article History
Received: 5 September 2023
Accepted: 13 December 2023
First Online: 9 January 2024
Declarations
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: The requirement of ethical approval for this was waived by the Institutional Review Board of Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, because the data was accessed from NHANES (a publicly available database). The need for written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital due to retrospective nature of the study. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.