Gao, Zishan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1299-0286
Yan, Xianzhong
Wang-Sattler, Rui https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8794-8229
Covic, Marcela
Yu, Guang
Ge, Feifei https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-8587
Lin, Jia
Chen, Qin
Liu, Juan
Sharma, Sapna
Molnos, Sophie
Kuehnel, Brigitte
Wilson, Rory
Adam, Jonathan
Brandmaier, Stefan
Yu, Shuguang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1413-8989
Liang, Fanrong https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2210-2027
Gieger, Christian https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6986-9554
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation (81973941,81202741)
Article History
Received: 6 November 2023
Revised: 20 September 2024
Accepted: 30 September 2024
First Online: 4 May 2025
Declarations
:
: The remaining authors declare competing no financial interests.
: The clinical trial protocol was approved by the Ethics Review Committee of the first Teaching Hospital of Chengdu University of TCM and had been published [2007KL-002] (Li et al. ). The multicenter randomized trial was registered (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT00599586). All study procedures were designed and conducted in accordance with principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and the Chinese version of the International Conference on Harmonisation—Good Clinical Practice.
: All patients signed written informed consent.
: All patients have consented to have their data published.