Coghill, David http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3017-9737
Du, Yasong
Jiang, Wenqing
Xian,
Lu, Dali
Qian, Yun
Mulraney, Melissa
Su, Linyang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Shire
Article History
Received: 8 July 2020
Accepted: 11 January 2021
First Online: 29 January 2021
Complaince with ethical standards
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: All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at ExternalRef removed (available on request from the corresponding author). None of the authors received and financial support for writing this article. David Coghill has received research support and/or honoraria from Shire/Takeda, Medice, Servier and Oxford University Press, Yasong Du has received research support and/or honoraria from Shire, Lilly, Janssen-Cilag and Linyang Su has received research support and/or honoraria from Shire, Lilly, Janssen-Cilag. None of the other authors have any financial disclosures relevant to this article. Other than the financial disclosures noted above none of the authors have conflicts of interest to disclose.
: All participants gave consent to participate.
: All procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. All procedures involving human subjects/patients were approved by the ethical review board of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Hunan, China (ref no. 2009 S170).