Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81470187)
Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin (15ZXHLSY00460)
Startup Funding of Scientific Research, Tianjin Medical University Metabolic Diseases Hospital and Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology (no. 2016DX02)
Article History
Received: 25 August 2018
Accepted: 31 October 2018
First Online: 7 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.”
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.