Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81873611)
Article History
Received: 16 June 2020
Accepted: 5 October 2020
First Online: 10 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by South West—Exeter Research Ethics Committee (REC reference: 17/SW/0001).
: If the manuscript is accepted, we approve it for publication in Cardiovascular Diabetology.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.