¹Medical Data Analytics Centre, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
²State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
³Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Corresponding author:  Terry Cheuk-Fung Yip, Tel: 852-3505-3125, 
Email: tcfyip@cuhk.edu.hk

Received: 16 January 2026   • Accepted: 17 January 2026