Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1315400, 2018YFC0910500)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81873631, 81370866, 81070612)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (201104335)
Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Clinical Research Program (YHJH201806)
the Neil Shen's SJTU Medical Research Fund
SJTU-Yale Collaborative Research Seed Fund, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (17DZ22512000)
Article History
Received: 4 September 2020
Accepted: 21 December 2020
First Online: 12 March 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: This study only reused historical data from five approved clinical studies, and all the five studies had been ethical approved and written consent had been obtained at the beginning of each study, respectively. This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (NO. [2017] 2-215). National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) approved our study protocol of reusing the published data (Request No. 21798), and approved this submission for publication.
: Consent to participate respect to the data reuse was waived both by Institutional Review Board (IRB) and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
: Not applicable.