Author contribution
The authors’ contributions were as follows: Cong Xiao and Yishan Jiang contributed to the development of the study hypothesis, reviewed the literature, collected the data, conducted the statistical analysis, provided the interpretation of results, and drafted and edited the article. The main investigators were Cong Xiao, Zhixiang Gao, and Wei Yu. Final approval of the article was provided by Cong Xiao and Yishan Jiang. All authors contributed to the discussion and interpretation of the data and to the writing of the article.