Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82070812)
Science and technology innovation Program of Hunan Province (2020RC4044)
Article History
Received: 10 November 2022
Accepted: 21 April 2023
First Online: 10 June 2023
Acknowledgements
: We thank all participants of the study. The authors would like to express gratitude to Professor Xilin Yang (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China) for his assistance with statistical analysis, and Professor R. David Leslie (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine, Blizard Institute, London, UK) for his generous help with language editing, which greatly contributed to the clarity and precision of this manuscript.
: The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material. Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 82070812), the science and technology innovation Program of Hunan Province (2020RC4044). The funder was not involved in the design of the study; the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; writing the report; and did not impose any restrictions regarding the publication of the report.
: The authors declare that there are no relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.
: XLi, RT and TZ designed the study, analysed and interpreted data, and drafted and revised the manuscript. RT, KL and XLin conducted the experiments, acquired and analysed data, discussed the results and revised the manuscript. All authors have reviewed and approved the final version. XLi is the guarantor of this work.
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