Zhang, Li
Xu, Yali
Li, Xuemei
Yang, Fan
Wang, Chengxiu
Yu, Chunmei
Article History
Received: 29 May 2023
Accepted: 5 January 2024
First Online: 31 January 2024
Declarations
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: The requirement of ethical approval for this was waived by the Institutional Review Board of The Fifth People’s Hospital of Chongqing, 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 The Fifth People’s Hospital of Chongqing due to retrospective nature of the study. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.