Funding for this research was provided by:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Article History
First Online: 30 May 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The study was funded by Boehringer Ingelheim.
: NY and AH are employees of Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd.. DJ was the principal investigator of this trial. Both YL and LH participated in the clinical study. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials, Peking University Third Hospital. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional review board and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, and in accordance with the principles of Good Clinical Practice and local guidelines.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants prior to study enrolment.